Existential Thought and Therapeutic Practice
An Introduction to Existential Psychotherapy
Sage Publications · Print & ebook · August 11, 1997
Although many practitioners have discovered existential-phenomenological thought, they may wonder what relevance these philosophical ideas have to their actual practice, to their day-to-day meetings with clients, and to the relationship between client and therapist.
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- Who it’s for
- Cohn connects existential phenomenology with familiar therapeutic practice and client-therapist relationships.
- Genres
- Existential Approaches, Existentialism, Therapy
- Published
- Sage Publications, August 11, 1997
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Although many practitioners have discovered existential-phenomenological thought, they may wonder what relevance these philosophical ideas have to their actual practice, to their day-to-day meetings with clients, and to the relationship between client and therapist. There is often a divide between thought and practice, and this book bridges that gap.
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In Existential Thought and Therapeutic Practice, author Hans W. Cohn introduces the history and ideas of existential phenomenology and existential psychotherapy and shows how therapeutic phenomena familiar to all therapists and counselors can be understood from an existential viewpoint. He also demonstrates how the existential approach opens up access to issues that other therapeutic orientations have neglected, such as the difficulty of choice, the burden of responsibility, and the inevitability of death. Existential Thought and Therapeutic Practice is clearly written and jargon-free. The existential approach is constantly compared to the relevant psychodynamic counterpart so that the reader can assess the unfamiliar against a background of the more familiar. The book will be of interest to training and practicing therapists and counselors and anyone concerned with new approaches in philosophy and psychotherapy.
Existential Practice
Cohn connects existential phenomenology with familiar therapeutic practice and client-therapist relationships.
Come here for
- The history and ideas of existential phenomenology and existential psychotherapy
- Choice, responsibility, and death from an existential viewpoint
Expect
- Therapeutic phenomena understood through an existential viewpoint
- Comparisons with relevant psychodynamic counterparts
Where it sits
| Existential Approaches | 99% |
|---|---|
| Existentialism | 45% |
| Therapy | 21% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- School Counseling
- Teaching Methods
- Nursing
- Psychology
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- Therapy & Counseling
- Therapy
- Group Therapy
- Self-Help
- Authors
- Hans W Cohn
- Publisher
- Sage Publications
- Published
- August 11, 1997
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- School Counseling