(P/B) EVERYDAY MYSTERIES

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This book provides an in-depth introduction to existential psychotherapy. Presenting a philosophical alternative to other forms of psychological treatment, it emphasises the problems of living and the human dilemmas that are often neglected by practitioners who focus on personal psychopathology.
Emmy van Deurzen defines the philosophical ideas that underpin existential psychotherapy, summarising the contributions made by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Sartre among others. She proposes a systemic and practical method of existential psychotherapy, illustrated with detailed case material. This expanded and updated second edition includes new chapters on the contributions of Max Scheler, Albert Camus, Gabriel Marcel and Emmanuel Levinas, as well as on feminist contributors such as Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt. In addition a new extended case discussion illustrates the approach in practice.
Everyday Mysteries offers a fresh perspective for anyone training in psychotherapy, counselling, psychology or psychiatry. Those already established in practice will find this a stimulating source of ideas about everyday life and the mysteries of human experience, which will throw new light on old issues. (From the publisher)

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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 of a 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 and Feminist 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 for Meaning
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