Existential therapies

✍ Scribed by Cooper, Mick

• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 169
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What does it mean to practice in an existential way? What are the different existential approaches? and, What are their strengths and limitations? Existential Therapies addresses these key questions and more by providing students and practitioners with an invaluable introduction to the diverse and multifaceted world of existential therapeutic practices.

Abstract: What does it mean to practice in an existential way? What are the different existential approaches? and, What are their strengths and limitations? Existential Therapies addresses these key questions and more by providing students and practitioners with an invaluable introduction to the diverse and multifaceted world of existential therapeutic practices

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 --
Introduction: the Rich Tapestry of Existential Therapies
Chapter 2 --
Existential Philosophy: an Introduction
Chapter 3 --
Daseinsanalysis: Foundations for an Existential Therapy
Chapter 4 --
Logotherapy: Healing Through Meaning
Chapter 5 --
The American Existential-Humanistic Approach: Overcoming a Resistance to Life
Chapter 6 --
R.D. Laing: Meeting without Masks
Chapter 7 --
The British School of Existential Analysis: the New Frontier
Chapter 8 --
Brief Existential Therapies
Chapter 9 --
Dimensions of Existential Therapeutic Practice.

✦ Subjects

Existential psychotherapy. Existentialism -- psychology. Psychotherapy -- methods. PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Existential. Existentiële psychotherapie. Samfundsvidenskab -- Psykologi.