Pragmatic existential counseling and psychotherapy : intimacy, intuition, and the search for meaning / Jerrold Lee Shapiro, Santa Clara University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapiro, Jerrold Lee, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Counseling.

Existential psychology.

Psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

xvii, 362 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc., [2016]

Summary:

Pragmatic Existential Counseling and Psychotherapy: Intimacy, Intuition, and the Search for Meaning integrates concepts of positive psychology and strengths-based therapy into-existential therapy. Turning existential therapy on its head, this exciting, all-new title approaches the theory from a positive, rather than the traditional, deficit model. Authored by a leading figure in existential therapy, Jerrold Lee Shapiro, the aim is to make existential therapy positive and easily accessible to a wide audience through a pragmatic, stage wise model. Shapiro expands on the work of Viktor Frankl and focuses on delivery to individuals and groups, men and women, and evidence-based therapy. The key to his work is to help the client focus on resistance and to use it as a means of achieving therapeutic breakthroughs. Filled with vignettes and rich case examples, the book is comprehensive, accessible, concrete, pragmatic, and very human in connection between author and reader. Key Features, This book explores existential psychotherapy through three interrelated lenses: A pragmatic form of existential counseling and therapy that blends both European philosophical influences with American pragmatism. It frames existential therapy as an encoding-inductive process and contrasts it to the deductive-decoding approach of other theoretical methods. A more generic use of existential tenets in all forms of relationally-based psychotherapy. A detailed, five decade are of the author's personal discovery of the nature and implementation of counseling and psychotherapy. Case studies and vignettes translate complex philosophical constructs into pragmatic approaches for counselors. A look into the counselors' minds shows their thoughts and ¦ decisions in detailed, real-time sessions with clients as well as providing a frank openness to exploring personal therapeutic errors and corrections. A unique rationale and formulation is given for the understanding of resistance as a strength versus as a problem. A six-fold classification of resistance methods and an approach to use each one for the client's betterment is offered. The author shows how therapists can be more receptive to data that emanate from both the client and internally-generated exp bringing to light the exploration of the therapists' unconscious experiences and multi-sense comprehension. This is the only book that examines and summarizes in clear, understandable-basic research when applied to existential therapy, Infrequently covered in most books, this one addresses the needs of clients during life transitions, such as from midlife to retirement. The book also allows readers to identify healthy (existential) concerns and to distinguish them from unhealthy (neurotic) issues and then provides a road map to dealing with both. Book jacket.

Contents:

Context: the author's life as an existential experiment

How philosophy becomes therapy

Essential concepts and themes in theory and therapy

Existential counseling and psychotherapy : strategies, qualities, and methods

The centrality of resistance in counseling and therapy

Using all the data: how do therapists know what they know?

The four epigenetic phases of psychotherapy

Show me the evidence! What is the proof that existential therapy works?

Beyond the I-Thou dyad: group, couple, and family therapy

Gender and culture in existential therapy

Life transitions and existential psychotherapy

An existential case study.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781483368993

1483368998

OCLC:

920943952