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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8914
EAN num: 9780415087056
ISBN number: 0415087058
Label: Routledge
Manufacturer: Routledge
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 307
Printing Date: January 29, 1997
Publishing house: Routledge
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Everyday Mysteries provides an in-depth introduction to existential psychotherapy. Presenting a philosophical alternative to established forms of psychological treatment, it emphasizes the problems of living and the human dilemmas which are often neglected by practitioners who focus on personal psychopathology.
Emmy van Deurzen-Smith defines the philosophical ideas that underpin existential psychotherapy, summarizing the contributions made by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Sartre among others. She offers a systematic and practical method of existential psychotherapy, illustrated with detailed case material. Everyday Mysteries offers a fresh perspective for anyone training in psychotherapy, counselling and psychoanalysis. Those already established in practice will find this a stimulating source of ideas about everyday life and the mysteries of human experience.
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This book is a rich compendium of the philosophical underpinnings of existential psychotherapy. The author has invested her career in a branch of psychotherapy that is most relevant to modern man's search for meaning, but which has suffered unfairly for lack of experimental results. She has founded the "London School" at Regent's College of a discipline that has a deep philosophical tradition, much of which has unfortunately been "lost in translation" to psychotherapeutic practice.
She has crystallized into concise chapters the seminal works in pure philosophy by Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre, as well as those of a more psychological bent by Jaspers and Lacan. Her clear understanding and genuine belief in the basic existential situation that must be confronted in abnormal treatment as well as normal life as "everyday mysteries" comes through in her interpretations of otherwise impenetrable originals.
I would suggest this as required reading before diving into more formal treatises and case studies such as Yalom's "Existential Psychotherapy". The bibiliography is also a gold mine for key philosophical references, from which she has picked some of the most memorable and useful passages.
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The author makes it clear that she values rationality, but longs for a depth of orientation that does justice to the world we find ourselves occupying.
Thus she finds the Jungian approach too magical/mystical, and the cognitive approach too narrow.
She reveals the inconsistencies inherent in all forms of psychotherapy, and offers this approach as at least potentially helpful.
It is good to discover a sincere and honest analyst of this rather odd circumstance in which individuals-in-distress turn to "experts" for help.
A realistic hope, however limited, is much more valuable to me than all the soaring unrealistic hope ususally offered.
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Van Deurzen provides a strong and well-reasoned overview of thinkers who have inspired existential psychotherapy. Helpful and intelligent.
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