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Title Living your own life : existential analysis in action / edited by Silvia Laengle and Christopher Wurm
Published London : Karnac Books Ltd, [2016]
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Contents COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; CHAPTER ONE Can I rely on my feelings?; CHAPTER TWO Meaning and happiness: on the vital significance of meaning; CHAPTER THREE Spirituality in psychotherapy? The relationship of immanence and transcendence in existential analysis; CHAPTER FOUR The dimension of time as a challenge to truthful existence; CHAPTER FIVE Steps towards meaning: the method of grasping meaning; CHAPTER SIX Crisis: threat and opportunity; CHAPTER SEVEN Fear: the royal road to existence-what hides behind fundamental fear and anticipatory anxiety?
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Encountering a disabled person: attitude and experience of the therapistAFTERWORD Living beginnings; USEFUL WEBSITES; INDEX
Summary This multi-author anthology is a short introduction to the world of existential psychotherapy, and specifically Existential Analysis. It gives concrete answers and demonstrates a way to apply this thinking in practice, providing outlines of its theoretical background, including Alfried Langle's four fundamental motivations. The main themes of the book are: working with emotionality and subjective experience and its importance for a fulfilling life; meaning and happiness; and spirituality and temporality. It covers psychological disorders and their treatment in adults and children, and also deals with disability and handicap
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Existential psychotherapy.
Existentialism.
Existentialism
Psychotherapy -- methods
existentialism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Existential psychotherapy
Existentialism
Form Electronic book
Author Laengle, Silvia, editor
Wurm, Christopher, editor
ISBN 9781782414360
1782414363
1781815682
9781781815687