ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on ideas from practitioners and their experiences, exploring ways in which, by extending their horizons of understanding, the liminal boundaries of ‘being’ might further journeys of discovery through clients’ life challenges. It explores some voices from the margins, offering alternative practice perspectives that look beyond protocol- and statistics-based therapy. The book also explores how anthroposophic psychotherapy purposefully circulates between the therapeutic relationship and the existential phenomenological situation of the client, enabling each as co-researchers into sufficient meaning. It discusses some of the challenges of modern life as reflected in the therapeutic practice, research and thoughts of the contributing authors. The book offers how a ‘dominant Western collective mindset towards death’ might be challenged by a different perspective on what it means to ‘be’, how one might find ease with the prospect of ‘not-being’, and thereby live life more fully.
