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Existential Time–Limited Therapy: The Wheel of Existence (Wiley Series in Existential Perspectives in Psychotherapy & Counselling) - Softcover
Existentialism emphasizes what it means to be human - that to feel anxious, lonely or uncertain are perfectly natural states. Clients are not considered sick and they are not labelled because each person is unique. Through a process of exploration, the client can learn, through insight and awareness, how they may have become stuck in the process of living. This in turn gives them the freedom to move forward in new directions. This book aims to combine existential ideas into a structured time-limited modular approach. It represents an overview of the principal existential ideas and then applies them to the model, using case vignettes throughout. The last four chapters are devoted to longer case histories, some of which are commented on by the clients themselves. This should allow the reader to understand how the model works both from therapist's and client's point of view. The concept of time itself within the context of this modular approach is shown to act as a catalyst for both the client and therapist, allowing for much deeper issues to emerge, even within a time-limited schedule.
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"...an authoritative guide...If only this book had been available when I first began to study existential psychotherapy..." -- Psychotherapy in Australia, Volume 6, Number 1, November 1999
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As people struggle with a sense of crisis and confusion they search for clarity and meaning. Increasingly they turn to psychotherapists and counsellors, who will find in this book a powerful existential approach to therapy that helps people to make sense of themselves by addressing their social, cultural and political context as well as their personal and interpersonal issues. It makes room for paradox and the acceptance of the inevitable. It allows for questioning and re–evaluation. The existential approach lends itself to time–limited work. Existential therapists do not encourage dependence. But this book also shows that such a brief, tough approach does not mean it is task oriented or superficial, rather that it is possible to allow for the free play of existential concerns and cover much territory in limited time. Clients and therapists will find this approach effective, topical and relevant. "... an important contribution to the literature on existential psychotherapy. The book brings forward two valuable innovations. One is the demonstration of the idea that brief or time–limited therapy can be done very effectively on existential principles, dealing with deep life issues. The other contribution is the idea of the Existential Wheel which is embodied in charts that depict and clarify the essential concepts and methods of existential psychotherapy, a powerful device that will be useful to experienced therapists as well as those less familiar with existential therapy." Bo Jacobsen, University of Copenhagen "... provides an overview of the principal ideas and concerns of existential therapy and an accessible exposition of the authors′ model from an applied standpoint. Case material derived from the authors′ practice illuminates and makes plain that, even if time limited, their approach makes accessible many of the deep issues that are usually viewed as emerging only in long term therapy. These instructive, and often deeply moving, contributions succeed in conveying the human meeting that exemplifies the authors′ work with clients, and personifies the existential approach to the therapeutic encounter." From the Foreword by Emesto Spinelli, London
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- PublisherWiley–Blackwell
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0471963089
- ISBN 13 9780471963080
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages222
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