1st Edition

Living Your Own Life Existential Analysis in Action

Edited By Silvia Laengle, Christopher Wurm Copyright 2016
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

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 mian themes of the book are: working with emotionality and subjective... Read more
Foreword , Can I rely on my feelings? , Meaning and happiness: on the vital significance of meaning , Spirituality in psychotherapy? The relationship of immanence and transcendence in existential analysis , The dimension of time as a challenge to truthful existence , Steps towards meaning: the method of grasping meaning , Crisis: threat and opportunity , Fear: the royal road to existence—what hides behind fundamental fear and anticipatory anxiety? , “I am afraid of falling out of this world”: a case study of a patient with severe mutism and complete social withdrawal , The path towards inner motion: an existential-analytic psychotherapy on depression , “ ... And after a suicide attempt I have to keep on living!” , “After all, only dumb people can be happy”: narcissistic personalities , Anna: the child wounded in her boundaries , Sandplay: therapy with a child of divorced parents , Encountering a disabled person: attitude and experience of the therapist , Afterword , Useful Websites

Biography

Silvia Laengle