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Title

Everyday mysteries : a handbook of existential psychotherapy / Emmy Van Deurzen.

Author

Van Deurzen, Emmy.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, c2010.

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Details

Description

xi, 370 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book provides an in-depth introduction to existential psychotherapy. Presenting a philosophical alternative to other forms of psychological treatment, it emphasises the problems of living and the human dilemmas that are often neglected by practitioners who focus on personal psychopathology."--Back cover.

Alternative Title

Handbook of existential psychotherapy

Subjects

• Existentialism
• Psychotherapy
• Existential psychotherapy

Note

• Prev. ed. has subtitle: Existential dimensions of psychotherapy.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [348]-360) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• pt. I. Philosophical underpinnings -- 1. Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) : a very individual approach -- 2. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) : with passion and intensity -- 3. Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) : phenomenology--a new science of psychology -- 4. Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) : the way to wisdom -- 5. Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) : a blueprint for living -- 6. Martin Buber (1878-1965) : human relations reconsidered -- 7. Max Scheler (1874-1928) : the human heart and intersubjectivity -- 8. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) : to be or not to be -- 9. Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) : embodied living -- 10. Paul Tillich (1886-1965) : a new spirituality -- 11. Other philosophical contributions -- 12. Female and feminist contributions -- pt. II. Existential dimensions : a map of the world -- 13. Worldviews, paradoxes and dialectics : a Copernican revolution -- 14. The physical dimension : being with nature -- 15. The social dimension : being with others --^
• 16. The personal dimension : being with oneself -- 17. The spiritual dimension : being with meaning -- pt. III. New foundations for psychotherapy -- 18. Introduction to new foundations for psychotherapy -- 19. Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) : psychopathology -- 20. Eugene Minkowski (1885-1972) : the dimension of time -- 21. Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) : the role of language -- 22. Ludwig Binswanger (1881-1966) : the beginning of existential therapy -- 23. Medard Boss (1903-1990) : Daseinsanalysis -- 24. Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) : logotherapy and the search for meaning -- 25. Rollo May (1909-1994), James Bugental (1915-2008), Irvin Yalom (1931- ) and others : the American contribution -- 26. Thomas Szasz (1921- ) : the social dimension of therapy -- 27. Ronald Laing (1927-1989) : anti-psychiatry -- 28. The contribution of the British School of Existential Analysis and Psychotherapy -- 29. Philosophical practice : an alternative to therapy -- pt. IV. Parameters of existential psychotherapy --^
• 30. Objectives of the existential project -- 31. Ground rules of existential work -- 32. Consciousness and the unknown -- 33. Therapeutic dialogue -- 34. The dynamic, multiple and changing self -- pt. V. Illustration -- 35. A case study : Rita's grief -- 36. Conclusions -- App. Four dimensions of existence.

ISBN

• 9780415376426 (hbk)
• 0415376424 (hbk)
• 9780415376433 (pbk.)
• 0415376432 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009020050

OCLC

• 338289173
• SCSB-10195450

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library