| Description |
1 online resource (145 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Why existentialism? A roadmap -- The theoretical is personal -- Existentialists face the human condition directly -- Meaning making -- From here to the future -- Being in space -- Choosing freely -- Being responsible -- The dialectics of relational being and authenticity -- Summary -- 1 Anxiety -- Being in the world -- Anxiety-the beating heart of existence -- Case illustration -- Ultimate concerns -- Death -- Existential freedom -- Existential isolation |
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Existential meaninglessness -- The lurking threat is the absurd -- 2 Choosing, acting, and responsibility -- Responsibility -- 3 The meaning of meaning -- Meaning in existential thought -- Case illustration -- Narrative -- Case illustration -- Authenticity -- They -- Case illustration -- The second case illustration -- 4 Being with and among others -- The other as a threat -- The look of shame -- The second perspective: The other as an opportunity for dialogue -- Case illustration -- 5 Being in time -- The perception of time as existential coherence -- Case illustration -- Death and time |
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Case illustration -- 6 Being in space -- Metaphoric existence in space -- The social construction of space -- Space and time -- Others in space -- The body in space -- The body in illness -- Existence in a nutshell -- 7 Intervention in existential social work -- Living with anxiety -- Empowering through freedom -- Being responsible for choices and actions -- Existing through meaning making -- Being authentic toward the self and others -- Projecting one's being toward the future -- 8 Toward an integrative implementation model -- Phase 1 -- Phase 2 |
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The existential confrontation is an additional dimension of the second phase -- Phase 3 -- Change -- Changed sense of self: Vulnerable but stronger -- Changed sense of being with others -- Termination of the professional relationship: Finality with no end -- Case illustration -- Intervention: Phase 1 -- Intervention: Phase 2 -- Intervention: Phase 3 -- Meaning as key to existence -- Laying the foundation of authenticity and relatedness -- 9 Relationships in existential intervention -- Empathy -- Presence -- Mutuality -- Transference and countertransference |
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Relationship toward the other as moral responsibility -- The challenge of authenticity -- Case illustration -- Epilogue: Life after the book -- References -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Existential psychology
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Mental health -- Philosophy
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Social service -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Buchbinder, Eli
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| ISBN |
9781000830002 |
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1000830004 |
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