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Existential psychotherapy / Irvin D. Yalom.

By: Yalom, Irvin D, 1931-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookCopyright date: ©1980Description: xii, 524 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0465021476; 9780465021475.Subject(s): Existential psychotherapy | Health and Wellbeing | Clinical & internal medicine | Existentialism | Phenomenology & Existentialism | Psychotherapy | Psychology | PsychotherapyDDC classification: 616.8914 YAL | 616.8914
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I: Death -- Life, death and anxiety -- The concept of death in children -- Death and psychopathology -- Death and psychotherapy -- Part II: Freedom -- Responsibility -- Willing -- Part III: Isolation -- Existential isolation -- Existential isolation and psychotherapy -- Part IV: Meaninglessness -- Meaninglessness -- Meaninglessness and psychotherapy.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The definitive account of existential psychotherapy.

"Professor Yalom's book is one of the irreducible classics of psychotherapy―wise, sensitive, scholarly, and beautifully written―not least in his gentle humor with psychiatric and philosophical emperors who have no clothes on." ―Alex Comfort

First published in 1980, Existential Psychotherapy is widely considered to be the foundational text in its field-- the first to offer a methodology for helping patients to develop more adaptive responses to life's core existential dilemmas. In this seminal work, American psychiatrist Irvin Yalom finds the essence of existential psychotherapy and gives it a coherent structure, synthesizing its historical background, core tenets, and usefulness to the practice.

Organized around what Yalom identifies as the four "ultimate concerns of life"--death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness--the book takes up the meaning of each existential concern and the type of conflict that springs from our confrontation with each. He shows how these concerns are manifest in personality and psychopathology, and how treatment can be helped by our knowledge of them.

Drawing from clinical experience, empirical research, philosophy, and great literature, Yalom has written a broad and comprehensive book. It will provide an intellectual home base for those psychotherapists who have sensed the incompatibility of orthodox theories with their own clinical experience, and opens new doors for empirical research. The fundamental concerns of therapy and the central issues of human existence are woven together here as never before, with intellectual and clinical results that have surprised and enlightened all readers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part I: Death -- Life, death and anxiety -- The concept of death in children -- Death and psychopathology -- Death and psychotherapy -- Part II: Freedom -- Responsibility -- Willing -- Part III: Isolation -- Existential isolation -- Existential isolation and psychotherapy -- Part IV: Meaninglessness -- Meaninglessness -- Meaninglessness and psychotherapy.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgments (p. xi)
  • Chapter 1 Introduction (p. 3)
  • Part I Death (p. 27)
  • Chapter 2 Life, Death, and Anxiety (p. 29)
  • Chapter 3 The Concept of Death in Children (p. 75)
  • Chapter 4 Death and Psychopathology (p. 110)
  • Chapter 5 Death and Psychotherapy (p. 159)
  • Part II Freedom (p. 215)
  • Chapter 6 Responsibility (p. 218)
  • Chapter 7 Willing (p. 286)
  • Part III Isolation (p. 351)
  • Chapter 8 Existential Isolation (p. 353)
  • Chapter 9 Existential Isolation and Psychotherapy (p. 392)
  • Part IV Meaninglessness (p. 417)
  • Chapter 1 0 (p. 419)
  • Chapter 1 1 (p. 461)
  • Epilogue (p. 485)
  • Notes (p. 487)
  • Index (p. 513)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Irvin D. Yalom was born in Washington, D.C. on June 13, 1931, of parents who immigrated from Russia shortly after World War I. Yalom entered into medical school intent on studying the field of psychiatry. His first writings were scientific contributions to professional journals. His first book, "The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy" was widely used as a text for training therapists. It has been translated into twelve languages and spawned four editions.

"Existential Psychotherapy" followed, which was a textbook for a course that did not exist at the time, and then "Inpatient Group Psychotherapy," a guide to leading groups in the inpatient psychiatric ward. In an effort to teach aspects of Existential Therapy, Yalom turned to a literary conveyance and wrote a book of therapy tales called "Love's Executioner", two teaching novels, "When Nietzsche Wept" and "Lying on the Couch" and, "Momma and the Meaning of Life," a collection of true and fictionalized tales of therapy.

These books went on to be best sellers, and "When Nietzsche Wept" won the Commonwealth Gold Medal for best fiction of 1993. They have been widely translated,each into about fifteen to twenty languages, and have had considerable distribution abroad.

(Bowker Author Biography)