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