ABSTRACT

Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy promises to be a landmark in the fields of psychotherapeutic theory and practice. A comprehensive revision of its predecessor, The Psychology of Existence, co-edited by Kirk Schneider and Rollo May, Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy combines clear and updated guidelines for practice with vivid and timely case vignettes. These vignettes feature the very latest in both mainstream and existential therapeutic integrative application, by the top innovators in the field. The book highlights several notable dimensions: a novel and comprehensive theory of integrative existential practice; a premium on mainstream integrations of existential theory as well as existential-humanistic integrations of mainstream theory; a focus on integrative mainstream as well as existential-humanistic practitioners, students, and theorists; a discussion of short-term and cognitive-behavioral existential-integrative strategies; a focus on ethnic and diagnostic diversity, from case studies of multicultural populations to vignettes on gender, sexuality, and power, and from contributions to the treatment of alcoholism to those elucidating religiosity, psychoses, and intersubjectivity.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part 1 Recent and Future Trends in Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy

part |4 pages

Part 2 Guideposts to an Existential-Integrative (EI) Approach

chapter 4|40 pages

erapeutic Implications of the eory

chapter |8 pages

Appendix

part |2 pages

Part 3 Case Illustrations of the EI Model

chapter 5|30 pages

EI Approaches to Multiculturalism

chapter 7|12 pages

Innovations in Short-Term EI Practices

chapter 8|10 pages

EI Mediation of Addiction: Alcoholism

chapter 11|32 pages

EI Approaches to Severe States

chapter 12|54 pages

EI Emphases on the Intersubjective

chapter 13|12 pages

EI Child erapy

chapter 14|14 pages

EI Encounters With Death and Dying

chapter |2 pages

Summary and Conclusion