Existential Psychotherapy: A Genetic-Phenomenological Approach

ISBN-13: 9781349952168 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 231 str.

Daniel Sousa

Opis

This book presents a genetic-phenomenological approach of existential psychotherapy, articulating its theoretical underpinnings with principles supported by scientific evidence and concluding with clinical examples.The volume also offers a clear perspective about the relational stances and the therapeutic interventions of existential psychotherapy and how both can be combined and applied in the clinical practice. It begins with an overview and update on psychotherapy research, from which a set of therapeutic principles are drawn. It then conceptualizes the theoretical underpinnings of the genetic-phenomenological approach, based on three main aspects: inner-time consciousness, the experiential self, and the passive synthesis theory. It concludes with practical examples of case conceptualizations and clinical cases. This work is particularly relevant for trainees, students, and professionals of clinical psychology and psychotherapy, but also other mental health professionals that work in the area of the psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INTO PSYCHOTHERAPY

Medical Model and Contextual Model - A Dichotomous World

The Efficacy of Psychotherapy 

Medical Model

Contextual Model

Scientific Research Data in Psychotherapy

The Dodo Bird Verdict - Different Psychotherapies are Efficacious (Relative Efficacy)

Common Factors in Psychotherapy

Specific Ingredients (Relative Efficacy) 

The Inter-relation between Common Factors and Specific Factors

Therapeutic Alliance and Real Relationship 

The Real Relationship

Repair of ruptures in the therapeutic alliance

Expectations, Agreement on Goals and Therapeutic Tasks

Feedback Systems in Psychotherapy

Negative Therapeutic Outcomes and the Impacts of the TherapistDropouts

Therapists' self-assessments: biased over-estimation  

Monitoring and Feedback Systems

The Therapist Factors

Variability of Effectiveness among Psychotherapists

Personal and Professional Qualities of Psychotherapists

Clinical Expertise and Deliberate Practice 

Chapter 2

STATIC AND GENETIC PHENOMENOLOGY

Static Phenomenology  

The static method

Epoché 

Psychological-Phenomenological Reduction

Descriptions

Eidetic Analysis

Genetic Phenomenology

Inner Time-Consciousness Theory

Manifestation of Subjectivity and Temporality 

Pre-Reflective Consciousness and Temporal Identity 

Experiential Selfhood 

Experiential Self—‘Streaming’ and ‘Standing’

Phenomenology of Passivity: The Depths of Facticity 

Active and Passive Self 

Passive “Unconscious” Geneses 

Affective Zero-Consciousness 

Phenomenology of Association, Intentional Motivations and Affective Allure 

Associative Reactivation and Passive Geneses 

The Person 

The Other

Alterity in the Self: Temporality, Corporality and Reflexivity

Temporality

The Body

Reflexivity

Double Reduction and Intersubjectivity

Chapter 3

EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY: THE GENETIC-PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH

Existential Psychotherapy: Theoretical Underpinnings

Integration of the Principles of Scientific Effectiveness in Existential Psychotherapy

Aims, Relational Stances and Therapeutic Techniques

Case Conceptualization

Process of Change

Chapter 4

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL CASE

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Clinical Case

Conclusion

Apendix

O autorze

Daniel Sousa is Director of the ISPA Clinic, a university-based clinic, in Lisbon, Portugal. He earned his Ph.D in psychotherapy, and has been developing research on existential therapy, the therapeutic relationship, and feedback systems. He is a founder member of the Portuguese Society for Existential Psychotherapy.