Existential Group Counselling and Psychotherapy

Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Modern western origins
	1 Historical overview
	2 Kurt Lewin (1890–1947)
	3 Wilfred Bion (1897–1979)
	4 S.H. Foulkes (1898–1976)
	5 Carl Rogers (1902–1987)
	6 Irvin D.Yalom (1931–)
	7 Conclusion and summary, Part I
Part II: Being and doing
	8 Towards an existential phenomenological model for group psychotherapy and counselling
	9 Why group
	10 The existential givens of human existence
	11 Time and temporality
	12 Relatedness
	13 Uncertainty, angst, and anxiety
	14 Freedom, choice, and change
	15 Death
	16 Meaning, meaninglessness, nothingness
	17 Embodiment and spatiality
	18 Emotions
	19 Language
	20 The world-view
	21 The contributions of existential phenomenology
	22 The contributions of hermeneutics
	23 The nature of problems and the process of change
	24 Relational issues
	25 Conclusion and summary, Part II
Part III: Doing and being
	26 Forming, maintaining, and ending the group
	27 Risks, disappointments, benefits, and therapeutic effects
	28 Focal points: responsibilities of the facilitator, the members, the group
	29 The ways of dialogue
	30 An existential phenomenological model for dreamwork in group
	31 Difficult and challenging behaviours
	32 The ambiguity of ethics (with apologies to Simone De Beauvoir)
	33 Conclusion and summary, Part III
Index