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Pragmatic Existential Counseling and Psychotherapy
Intimacy, Intuition, and the Search for Meaning
- Jerrold Lee Shapiro - Santa Clara University, USA
December 2015 | 384 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
“This is a masterful primer on existential therapy that has been forged from the pen of a highly seasoned theorist, researcher, and practitioner. In Pragmatic Existential Counseling and Psychotherapy: Intimacy, Intuition and the Search for Meaning, we gain the insight and personal experience of one who has lived and breathed the field for over 50 years—alongside some of the greatest practitioners of the craft, most notably Viktor Frankl. This volume is superb for students interested in a broad and substantive overview of the field.”
—Kirk Schneider, Columbia University
Pragmatic Existential Counseling and Psychotherapy integrates concepts of positive psychology and strengths based therapy into existential therapy. Turning existential therapy on its head, this exciting, all-new title approaches the theory from a positive, rather than the traditional deficit model. Authored by a leading figure in existential therapy, Jerrold Lee Shapiro, the aim is to make existential therapy positive and easily accessible to a wide audience through a pragmatic, stage wise model. Shapiro expands on the work of Viktor Frankl and focuses on delivery to individuals and groups, men and women, and evidence based therapy. The key to his work is to help the client focus on resistance and to use it as a means of achieving therapeutic breakthroughs. Filled with vignettes and rich case examples, the book is comprehensive, accessible, concrete, pragmatic and very human in connection between author and reader.
—Kirk Schneider, Columbia University
Pragmatic Existential Counseling and Psychotherapy integrates concepts of positive psychology and strengths based therapy into existential therapy. Turning existential therapy on its head, this exciting, all-new title approaches the theory from a positive, rather than the traditional deficit model. Authored by a leading figure in existential therapy, Jerrold Lee Shapiro, the aim is to make existential therapy positive and easily accessible to a wide audience through a pragmatic, stage wise model. Shapiro expands on the work of Viktor Frankl and focuses on delivery to individuals and groups, men and women, and evidence based therapy. The key to his work is to help the client focus on resistance and to use it as a means of achieving therapeutic breakthroughs. Filled with vignettes and rich case examples, the book is comprehensive, accessible, concrete, pragmatic and very human in connection between author and reader.
Chapter 1: Context: The Author's Life as an Existential Experiment
Chapter 2: How Philosophy Becomes Therapy
Chapter 3: Essential Concepts/themes in Existential Theory and Therapy
Chapter 4: Existential Counseling and Psychotherapy: Strategies, Qualities, and Methods
Chapter 5: The Centrality of Resistance in Counseling and Therapy
Chapter 6: Using All the Data: How Do Therapists Know What They Know?
Chapter 7: The Four Epigenetic Phases of Psychotherapy
Chapter 8: Show Me the Evidence! What is the Proof that Existential Therapy Works?
Chapter 9: Beyond the I-thou Dyad: Group, Couple, and Family Therapy
Chapter 10: Gender and Culture in Existential Therapy
Chapter 11: Life Transitions and Existential Psychotherapy
Chapter 12: An Existential Case Study
“This is a masterful primer on existential therapy that has been forged from the pen of a highly seasoned theorist, researcher, and practitioner. In Pragmatic Existential Counseling and Psychotherapy we gain the insight and personal experience of one who has lived and breathed the field for over 50 years—alongside some of the greatest practitioners of the craft, most notably Viktor Frankl. This volume is superb for students interested in a broad and substantive overview of the field.”
Columbia University
