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Irvin D. Yalom emphasized the importance of understanding them to solve the psychological problems people encounter. He argued that psychology and religious doctrines, which is a positive science, should work together. Although he himself says he is an atheist about religion and God, he acknowledges that man in his essence is a religion and a essence belonging to God. According to him, this essence is slightly different from the God expressed by systematic Muslimism, Christianity and Muslimism. Yalom has expressed that there is a number of existential concerns on the basis of the problems people experience. He has classified these concerns as death, loneliness, the meaninglessness of life and freedom. The obstacles to people’s happiness are caused by these concerns. Yalom defended the unity of existential psychotherapy and religion as a solution, and he himself tried to produce solutions in this way.