Existential Psychotherapy
Mar 2020 · Sold by Basic Books
star
1 review
Ebook
416
Pages
family_home
Eligible
info
About this ebook
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.
“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.
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
...
Ratings and reviews
1 review
Michael DeRuiter
- Flag inappropriate
July 12, 2022
An excellent manual for learning non-cognitive therapy. There is room in the industry for forms of therapy different than the standard solution in mental hospitals. I am a fan of art time.
About the author
Irvin D. Yalom, MD, is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University. He is the author of numerous books, including Love’s Executioner and Becoming Myself. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
Irvin D. Yalom, MD, is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University. He is the author of numerous books, including Love’s Executioner and Becoming Myself. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
Rate this ebook
Tell us what you think.
Reading information
Smartphones and tablets
Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Laptops and computers
You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.
eReaders and other devices
To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.
