Living your own life : existential analysis in action / edited by Silvia Laengle and Christopher Wurm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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

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