Living Your Own Life : Existential Analysis in Action / by Silvia Laengle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laengle, Silvia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Existential psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, [2018].

Language Note:

English

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.

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 22, 2016).

ISBN:

0-429-91579-9

0-429-90156-9

0-429-47679-5

1-78241-436-3

9780429476792

OCLC:

1029237618