By Mick Cooper
'One can in simple terms applaud the bravery of an writer who lightly ship up Kierkegaard's wilful obscurantism and cleans out the acrid smoke of Gauloises from the room. With welcome readability and sanity, Mick Cooper successfully lays out the innovations, ideas and instructions followed by way of a number of key figures within the large box of existentially expert psychotherapy. In a superb first bankruptcy, Mick Cooper mentioned my 'ontic' from my 'ontological'; and that i may possibly see, in the back of the long-words-with-dashes, the genuine resonance of those rules with actual human and healing matters, dilemmas and goals' - scientific Psychology
'This e-book proves to be a true treasure chest: what you usually desired to find out about existential psychotherapy yet didn't locate wherever else in one of these finished, transparent and concise demeanour. In that experience, this booklet offers a lacking hyperlink. One benefit of the ebook is its systematic constitution. As huge, and partially as heterogeneous as existential philosophy and remedy additionally probably, Mick Cooper had however been capable of construct convincing clusters with, at the one hand, a massive figuring out of info and, at the different, a far-sightedness that, like a map, offers orientation within the variety of existential treatment. i actually savor this book and will suggest it very strongly' - Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapies
'Existential treatments will i think, by surprise make "existentialism" come alive. the writer, Mick Cooper loves his topic, it fascinates and enthrals him, and we get to event a few of that, even if the e-book is "academic ". The connections and overlaps with person-centred psychology are there for us to be, yet so are the differences' - Person-Centred Practice
'As an summary of a couple of varied existential cures the booklet is intensely welcome and manages in a comparatively brief area to hide a large area. total I price the ebook hugely. to drag jointly a wide and just a little disparate literature, then make feel of it and eventually keeps the reader's curiosity, is difficult' - Existential Analysis
'Mick Cooper has performed a magnificent activity in writing a far wanted, present and person pleasant survey of the sector of existential remedies. If I have been to coach this direction, i might use this ebook. I applaud Mick Cooper for having admirably completed the purpose he got down to in attaining. All this makes Mick Cooper's booklet a must-read for a person wishing to discover the subject of existential therapy' - Society for Laingian stories Website
'What makes this booklet particular is that every one the several strands of Existential philosophy are continuously truly associated with practice' - Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal
'This is a really clean ebook, no longer treading well-worn paths and surely informing us a couple of small yet very important box. this is often quite an critical ebook for someone who desires to comprehend existentialist techniques to therapy' - Self and Society
'This ebook marks a milestone offering a superb, transparent and significant assessment of the contrasting kinds of the technique because it is at present practised' - Emmy van Deurzen, New institution of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Schiller college, London
'This is a ebook of really good thoroughness and scholarship - an unparalleled consultant to existential therapy's leader positions and controversies' - Kirk J Schneider, President of the Existential-Humanistic Institute, USA
'Combines scholarship with a writing sort that makes tough thoughts obtainable. This publication will be required studying on any direction the place the existential culture performs an element, and that incorporates person-centred classes and all sympathetic to the concept that psychotherapy is, in essence, a human come across the place heat, figuring out and a deep admire for the person are key values' - Tony Merry, collage of East London
What does it suggest to perform in an existential approach? What are the several existential ways? What are their strengths and obstacles? Existential cures addresses those key questions, and extra, by means of supplying scholars and practitioners with a useful advent to the varied and multifaceted global of existential healing practices.
Focusing on sensible, face-to-face paintings with consumers, the book:
· introduces readers to 6 key existential therapies
· discusses key figures and their contributions, together with Irvin Yalom, Emmy van Deurzen, Ernesto Spinelli, Viktor Frankl and R D Laing
· compares and contrasts a few of the approaches,
highlighting parts of commonality and difference
· outlines key debates in the existential remedy field
· offers specified feedback for extra reading
Existential remedies bargains scholars and practitioners of all orientations a lot that they could comprise into their very own healing paintings, and every procedure is vividly dropped at lifestyles via therapist-client dialogues and case reviews. Written in an available, hot, and fascinating demeanour, Existential treatments is an important creation to this wealthy, vivid and stimulating field.
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London: Routledge (Chs. 1–6). Useful summary of the ideas of key existential philosophers and their relevance to therapeutic practice. Spinelli, E. (1989) The Interpreted World: An Introduction to Phenomenological Psychology. London: Sage. Very clear introduction to phenomenology, specifically orientated towards therapists and psychologists. Moran, D. (2000) Introduction to Phenomenology. London: Routledge. Comprehensive, accessible and in-depth introduction to the writings of Husserl and the key phenomenologists, including such existential-phenomenologists as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty.
In this respect, then, anxiety – at least of the existential sort – is not irrational or a sign of pathology, but a teacher and guide. ‘Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way’, writes Kierkegaard, ‘has learned the ultimate’; and he goes on to state that ‘the more profoundly he is in anxiety, the greater is the man’ (1844/1980: 155). In the example of choosing whether or not to eat the chocolate, then, adopting an attitude of resolve means putting to one side attempts to attenuate my anxiety.
From an existential perspective, life is not a unidirectional process; rather, it is caught in a web of manifold tensions. There is, for instance, the tension between freedom and limitations, between self and others, between the I–Thou and the I–It (Buber, 1923/1958), and between hope and despair (Marcel, 1949). Furthermore, at the heart of an existential outlook is the assertion that there are no intrinsically ‘right’ answers. Rather, there is only a constant pull from one side to the other. Such tensions are paradoxes: contradictions that cannot be overcome.
