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Existential Psychotherapy

by Irvin D. Yalom. 532 pgs.

Contributors:

   Irvin D. Yalom

Publisher:

   Basic Books

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1980

Subjects:

Existential Psychotherapy

	ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xi
	CHAPTER 1 / Introduction	3
	Existential Therapy: A Dynamic Psychotherapy	6
	The Existential Orientation: Strange But Oddly Familiar	11
	The Field of Existential Psychotherapy	14
	Existential Therapy and the Academic Community	21
	CHAPTER 2 / Life, Death, and Anxiety	29
	Life-Death Interdependence	30
	Death and Anxiety	41
	The Inattention to Death in Psychotherapy Theory and Practice	54
	Freud: Anxiety without Death	59
	CHAPTER 3 / The Concept of Death in Children	75
	Pervasiveness of Death Concern in Children	76
	Concept of Death: Developmental Stages	78
	Death Anxiety and the Development of Psychopathology	103
	The Death Education of Children	107
	CHAPTER 4 / Death and Psychopathology	110
	Death Anxiety: A Paradigm of Psychopathology	112
	Specialness	117
	The Ultimate Rescuer	129
	Toward an Integrated View of Psychopathology	141
	Schizophrenia and the Fear of Death	147
	An Existential Paradigm of Psychopathology: Research Evidence	152
	CHAPTER 5 / Death and Psychotherapy	159
	Death as a Boundary Situation	159
	Death as a Primary Source of Anxiety	187
	Problems of Psychotherapy	204
	Life Satisfaction and Death Anxiety: A Therapeutic Foothold	207
	Death Desensitization	211
	CHAPTER 6 / Responsibility	218
	Responsibility as an Existential Concern	218
	Responsibility Avoidance: Clinical Manifestations	223
	Responsibility Assumption and Psychotherapy	231
	Responsibility Awareness American-Style -- Or, How to Take Charge of Your Own Life, Pull Your Own Strings, Take Care of Number One, and Get "It"	253
	Responsibility and Psychotherapy: Research Evidence	261
	Limits of Responsibility	268
	Responsibility and Existential Guilt	276
	CHAPTER 7 / Willing	286
	Responsibility, Willing, and Action	286
	Toward a Clinical Understanding of Will: Rank, Farber, May	293
	The Will and Clinical Practice	301
	Wish	303
	Decision -- Choice	314
	The Past versus the Future in Psychotherapy	346
	CHAPTER 8 / Existential Isolation	353
	What Is Existential Isolation?	355
	Isolation and Relationship	362
	Existential Isolation and Interpersonal Psychopathology	373
	CHAPTER 9 / Existential Isolation and Psychotherapy	392
	A Guide to Understanding Interpersonal Relationships	392
	Confronting the Patient with Isolation	397
	Isolation and the Patient-Therapist Encounter	401
	CHAPTER 10 / Meaninglessness	419
	The Problem of Meaning	422
	Meanings of Life	423
	Loss of Meaning: Clinical Implications	447
	Clinical Research	455
	CHAPTER 11 / Meaninglessness and Psychotherapy	461
	Why Do We Need Meaning?	462
	Psychotherapeutic Strategies	470
	EPILOGUE	485
	NOTES	487
	INDEX	513

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