Everyday Mysteries : A Handbook of Existential Psychotherapy (Paperback, 2 ed)

Preliminary Remarks. Preface. General Introduction. Part I: Theory: Philosophical Underpinnings. Soren Kierkegaard: A Very Individual Approach. Friedrich Nietzsche: With Passion and Intensity. Edmund Husserl: Science ofa New Psychology. Karl Jaspers: The Way to Wisdom. Martin Heidegger: Blueprint for Living. Martin Buber: Human Relations Reconsidered. Max Scheler: The Human Heart and Inter-subjectivity. Jean-Paul Sartre: To Be or Not to Be. Maurice Merleau Ponty: Embodied Living. Paul Tillich: A New Spirituality. Other Philosophical Contributions.Female andFeminist Contributions. Part II: Existential Dimensions: A Map of the World.Worldviews, Paradoxes and Dialectics: A Copernican Revolution. The Physical Dimension: Being with Nature. The Social Dimension: Being with Others. The Personal Dimension: Being with Oneself. The Spiritual Dimension: Being with Meaning. Part III:New Foundations for Psychotherapy. Introduction. Karl Jaspers: Psychopathology. Eugene Minkowski:The Dimension of Time. Jacques Lacan: The Role of Language. Ludwig Binswanger:The Beginning of Existential Therapy. Medard Boss: Daseinsanalysis. Victor Frankl: Logotherapy and the Search forMeaning.The American Contribution: May, Bugental, Yalom and Others. Thomas Szasz: Social Dimension of Therapy. Ronald Laing: Anti-Psychiatry. The British School of Existential Analysis. Philosophical Consultancy.Part IV: Parameters of Existential Psychotherapy. Objectives of the Approach. Ground Rules of Existential Work. Consciousness and the Unknown. Therapeutic Dialogue. The Dynamic, Multiple and Changing Self.Part V: Case Illustration. Rita’s grief. Conclusion.