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1 online resource (253 pages) |
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Advancing Theory in Therapy |
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Advancing theory in therapy.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; Existential Therapy; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; Series preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Laura Barnett and Greg Madison; 1. Existential psychotherapy, discipline and démarche: remembering essential horizons: Erik Craig; 2. Existential psychotherapy and post-Cartesian psychoanalysis: historical perspectives and confluence: Roger Frie; 3. Daseinsanalysis: a dialogue: Alice Holzhey-Kunz and Tamás Fazekas; 4. Tedium, ennui, and atonement: existential perspectives on boredom: Laura Barnett |
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5. Experiential-existential therapy: embodying freedom and vulnerability: Les Todres6. Palpable existentialism: an interview with Eugene Gendlin: Greg Madison and Eugene Gendlin; 7. Applied existential psychotherapy: an experiential psychodynamic approach: Betty Cannon; 8. R.D. Laing revisited: a dialogue on his contribution to authenticity and the sceptic tradition: Michael Guy Thompson and John M. Heaton; 9. The existential ̀therapy' of Thomas Szasz: existential, yes; therapy, no: Keith Hoeller; 10. A dialogue on dialogue: Mick Cooper and Ernesto Spinelli |
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11. The Viennese School of Existential Analysis: the search for meaning and affirmation of life: Alfried Längle12. Reasons for living: existential therapy and spirituality: Emmy Van Deurzen; 13. Research: an existential predicament for our profession?: Linda Finlay; 14. Depth and the marketplace: psychology's Faustian plight: a dialogue: Kirk J. Schneider and Simon Du Plock; 15. On reading Irvin Yalom's Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Dread of Death: Maurice Friedman, Havi Carel, Judith Hassan and Donna Orange; Conclusion: Laura Barnett and Greg Madison; Index |
| Summary |
In 1958 in their book Existence, Rollo May, Henri Ellenberger and Ernst Angel introduced existential therapy to the English-speaking psychotherapy world. Since then the field of existential therapy has moved along rapidly and this book considers how it has developed over the past fifty years, and the implications that this has for the future. In this book Laura Barnett and Greg Madison bring together contributors from both sides of the Atlantic to highlight issues surrounding existential therapy today, and look constructively to the future whilst acknowledging the debt to the past. Dialogue is |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Madison, Greg
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| ISBN |
9780203147658 |
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0203147650 |
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