1st Edition
Introducing Existential Health The Four-Dimensional Model
Preface
Part One. The Four-Dimensional Model
1. History of health understandings and definitions
2. The biopsychosocial model and the critique
3. Background for a restructured model
4. The four-dimensional model of health and illness
Part Two. What is Existential Health
5. Explorations in existential health
6. Mapping the terrain of existential health
7. Empirical connections: Existential health in relation to other health dimensions
8. Where the presence of existential health is already evident
9. Some implications of existential health
10. Epilogue
Biography
Peter la Cour is from Denmark, works as a clinical health psychologist, and holds a time-limited position as professor adjunct at MF, Oslo Norway. His PhD was in psychology of religion, and he been a part of a Norwegian research network now called "Research center for existential health" for the past 15 years.
