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Existential Thought and Therapeutic Practice: An Introduction to Existential Psychotherapy
Contributor(s): Cohn, Hans W. (Author)
ISBN: 0761951091     ISBN-13: 9780761951094
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
OUR PRICE:   $69.35  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 1997
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Annotation: Although many practitioners have discovered existential-phenomenological thought, they may wonder what relevance these philosophical ideas have to their actual practice, to their day-to-day meetings with clients, and to the relationship between client and therapist. There is often a divide between thought and practice, and this book bridges that gap. In Existential Thought and Therapeutic Practice, author Hans W. Cohn introduces the history and ideas of existential phenomenology and existential psychotherapy and shows how therapeutic phenomena familiar to all therapists and counselors can be understood from an existential viewpoint. He also demonstrates how the existential approach opens up access to issues that other therapeutic orientations have neglected, such as the difficulty of choice, the burden of responsibility, and the inevitability of death. Existential Thought and Therapeutic Practice is clearly written and jargon-free. The existential approach is constantly compared to the relevant psychodynamic counterpart so that the reader can assess the unfamiliar against a background of the more familiar. The book will be of interest to training and practicing therapists and counselors and anyone concerned with new approaches in philosophy and psychotherapy.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Movements - Existential
- Psychology | Psychotherapy - Counseling
Dewey: 616.891
Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.38" W x 8.42" (0.43 lbs) 144 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
A lucid and much-needed account of existential psychotherapy... As well as locating existential psychotherapy within a historical and philosophical context, Hans Cohn encompasses various therapeutic issues and provides some vivid and sensitive passages of case material... I found the book provided a concise and clarifying account of the underlying philosophy and of the psychotherapeutic practice... The existentialist challenge to Freud outlined in the book provides an alternative point of view to counter potentially engulfing aspects of a psychoanalytic vision. This is a stimulating book which is a valuable contribution towards dialogue between different approaches of psychotherapy′ - International Journal of Psychotherapy


Contributor Bio(s): Cohn, Hans W.: - Hans W Cohn is a psychotherapist in private practice and lectures at the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regent's College in London, where he also supervises students who have chosen to engage in a programme leading to an Advanced Diploma in Existential Psychotherapy.