Re-Visioning Existential Therapy Counter-traditional Perspectives

Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of contents
Notes on contributors
Introduction
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	References
Part I The risk of communication
	1 Is relatedness a normative ideal?
		To translate is to betray
		Was Heidegger a phenomenologist?
		Mother’s cooking
		Relatedness as normative ideal
		Unholy trinity
		Negation and the risk of communication
		The city and the city
		Identity-thinking
		Exiting the house of Being
		References
	2 Existential aspects of experiencing
		Introduction
		Experiencing as translation from the language of existential philosophy into the language of psychology and psychotherapy
		Experiencing as a process
		Experiencing as activity
		Hope and despair
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	3 Learn to forget: A Nietzschean revaluation of forgetting in psychotherapy
		Forgetting
		Rupture
		Revaluation of all values
		On the genealogy of morality
		Active forgetting
		The therapeutic relationship
		Child’s play
		Conclusion
		References
	4 fragments of (an) existential discourse
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		References
	5 Where angels fear to tread: A lived experience of striptease
		Introduction
		The body that points out and the body that speaks
			What would it feel like to be her, to be so in control, so seemingly comfortable in one’s skin?
			What would it feel like to be able to harness and modulate one’s sexual energy to tease and seduce another person or an audience?
		The mutinous body
		The fragility of mind–body integration
		Teasestrip
		Inhabiting the body of love
		X-rated. The strip: the flow and gift of pleasure
		Conclusion
		References
	6 Existential therapy: Relational creative engagement in action
		Introduction
		Ballet training and therapy training
		No dancing by numbers
		The power of the group vs. trusting myself
		Supervision as assessment
		General assumptions about existential therapy
		Small talk and self-disclosure
		Ditching linear thinking
		Conclusion
		References
Part II Compliance and emancipation
	7 Psychotherapy in an age of stupidity
		Introduction
		Existential individuation
		Compliance and emancipation
		Heteronomy and dividuation
		Alienation and inauthenticity
		Atrophy of the noetic
		Anamnesis
		In the beginning was exteriority
		Communalization
		Tribal enclaves
		Shepherds of stupidity
		Acting out
		References
	8 Authenticity and difference: Heidegger’s ontological problem
		Introduction
		Being and authenticity
		Of death and taxes
		We are also what we are not
		‘The Anyone’ and concrete others
		Difference, ambiguity and tradition
		Closing thoughts
		References
	9 Radical existentialism is manuski: Existentially influenced psychoanalytic psychotherapy
		Introduction
		Philosophy as Mandelbrot set
		Buffet philosophy
		Existential soup
		Radical existentialism
		In practice
		Objectification and nuance
		Annihilation of caste
		Manuski
		Radical existentialism is manuski
		References
	10 The other of a feminist praxis of empathy
		Ethics and existential Eurocentrism
		Dissent and re-politicization
		Social theorizing and recognition
		References
	11 Subversion therapy and the imperialism of everyday life
		Introduction
		Therapy as part of a wider movement against oppression
		Desire as commodity
		Inner surveillance
		Extinction Rebellion: an example of subversion in action
		What does this look like in therapy?
		Ideal therapist and obedience
		De-reification of the spectre
		Therapist as theatrical producer: fleshing out the void
		References
	12 Hack therapy: A radical existential practice
		Introduction
		Existential process
		What is the existential use of theory?
		How often is existential therapy even ‘existential’, let alone radical?
		Existential relating
		Prioritising existential ‘unknowing’
		Inconclusive thoughts
		References
	13 A person on the edge of inner and outer realities: A therapist’s reflections
		Foreword
		Psychotherapy in Ukraine: myth or reality?
		Prerequisites for the development of psychotherapy in Ukraine
		Some existential context of our identity – historicity
		Trans-generational trauma
		Euromaidan driven by emotions and new values
		Volunteer movement and the role of psychotherapy
		New development for psychotherapy
		Afterword
		References
	14 The bi-rooted migrant: An existential journey
		Introduction
		Being in relativity
		An eccentric perspective
		Fragility – an intrinsic sense of vulnerability
		Being in time
		Roots as a metaphor – vertical and horizontal roots
		References
	15 The poetry of the world: A tribute to the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty
		Redefining humanism
		Beyond the mind/body dualism
		Merleau-Ponty’s unique version of phenomenology
		Reclaiming phenomenology from idealist philosophy
		The lived body
		Inner life and the flesh
		Merleau-Ponty and the Counter-tradition
		Humanism and terror
		‘Chanter le monde’
		References
Part III Unreasonable reason
	16 Kafka reading Kierkegaard: Always in a process of becoming
		Introduction
		Kafka’s comprehension of Kierkegaard’s, and his own, ontological condition of anxiety and despair
		Kafka’s ethical dilemma
		The counter-tradition
		Notes
		References
	17 Myth as a container for anxiety: Bion, the unconscious, and Daseinsanalysis
		Introduction
		The Container and the Contained
		Myth and anxiety
		Myth as a Container
		Myth in psychoanalysis
		Overvalued ideas
		Anxiety and Echoism
		Conclusion
		References
	18 Talking cure and curing talk: Therapy, theory and the already dead
		Talking about is talking with
		The word-curse and beyond
		Unreasonable reason
		The words that are left
		References
	19 Existence, self, and meaning: A stranger in search of home
		Death
		Freedom
		The highly clever demon
		Anxiety
		Medicalizing human existence: the wrong invention
		The suffocating truth
		Life
		References
	20 Meaning and meaninglessness of the self
		Introduction
		The selfless consciousness
		Rupture with meaning as a return to selfhood
		Possible prospects
		References
	21 Existentialism or a philosophy of existence?: Shestov and existential therapy
		Introduction
		Context
		Lev Shestov
			(a) Philosophical style
				Shestov on Nietzsche
				Shestov on Kierkegaard
				Shestov on Husserl’s phenomenology
			(b) Some general remarks on Shestov’s approach
		Final remarks
		References
	22 Questioning existential psychotherapy from some critical existential-analytic moments
		Introduction
		What’s wrong with existentialism?
		Some underlying post-existential assumptions
		Critical existential-analytic (post-existential) psychotherapy after postmodernism
			Theoretical foundations
			Psychology
			Research
			Have goals
			Follow a method
			External evaluation criteria
			Diagnosis and treatment
			Clients know what they need
			Primacy given to autonomy
			Well being and a therapeutic ethos
		Conclusion
		References
Part IV The clinic and the everyday
	23 The psychotherapeutic use of psychedelics: Reflections, critique and recommendations
		A new beginning
		An elusive panacea
		Challenging a challenging experience
		Appearance and reality
		Moving on
		References
	24 Understanding Francisco’s schizophrenia: A humanistic phenomenological research method
		Introduction
		Methodology
		Results and discussion
		Understanding the lived worlds (Lebenswelten) of Francisco and Madalena
		Erased expression of the lived world (Lebenswelt) in schizophrenia
		Conclusion
		References
	25 Dream harder: A phenomenological exploration
		Introduction
		An absurd quest
		In the mood
		Dreaming harder
		Rekindling awareness
		In practice
		Conclusion
		References
	26 ‘Igor’s pet cemetery? Igor is out. Burying cat’: A memoir of living and dying
		Note
		Acknowledgements
	27 Metaphoric affect processing: Reflecting and transcending self as metaphor
		Introduction
		Metaphorically speaking
		Metaphor-mirroring
		A definition
		Day-hospital, chemotherapy
		A poet and a scribe
			Waiting for My Chemotherapy
		The safety of definitional commentary
		Revising affect as metaphor
		The metaphor-mirror in context
		Quantifying the benefits of metaphor-based dialogue
		In-patient, acute care psychiatric service
			“I, Metaphor…”
		Deep listening and intrinsic empathy
		Metaphorically speaking
		The meaning of it all
		References
Index