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Existential therapy has been practiced and continues to be
practiced in many forms and situations throughout the world. But
until now, it has lacked a coherent structure, and analysis of its
tenets, and an evaluation of its usefulness. Irvin Yalom, whose
Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy has rendered such a
service to that discipline since 1970, provides existential
psychotherapy with a background, a synthesis, and a framework.
Organized around what Yalom identifies as the four ultimate
concerns of lifedeath, freedom, existential isolation, and
meaninglessnessthe book takes up the meaning of each existential
concern and the type of conflict that springs from our
confrontation with each. He shows how these concerns are manifested
in personality and psychopathology, and how treatment can be helped
by our knowledge of them. Drawing from clinical experience,
empirical research, philosophy, and great literature, Yalom has
written a broad and comprehensive book. It will provide an
intellectual home base for those psychotherapists who have sensed
the incompatability of orthodox theories with their own clinical
experience, and it opens new doors for empirical research. The
fundamental concerns of therapy and the central issues of human
existence are woven together here as never before, with
intellectual and clinical results that will surprise and enlighten
all readers.
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