An Existential Approach to Human Development

Philosophical and Therapeutic Perspectives

Martin Adams (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

229 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-137-50473-9 (ISBN)

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This textbook reviews for the first time the thinking of six major existential philosophers; Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir with respect to their ideas about human development. Martin Adams presents a philosophical and psychological analysis, and critically evaluates the different ways that existential philosophy can illuminate the way we all strive for meaning and purpose in life. Written in a detailed, well-structured manner, this text offers a fundamentally different way to understand not only life in general but the practice of psychotherapy in particular.

Martin Adams is a Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Lecturer at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling in London.

1 A short history of human development.- 2 Thinking phenomenologically and existentially about human development.- 3 Søren Kierkegaard: Living with faith.- 4 Friedrich Nietzsche: Living with power.- 5 Martin Heidegger: Living in time.- 6 Jean-Paul Sartre: Living with nothingness.- 7 Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Living with embodiment.- 8 Simone de Beauvoir: Living with others.- 9 Implications for therapeutic practice.- Working with age.- Working with truth, narrative and the sense-of-self.- Working with beginnings and endings.- Working with embodiment.- Working with randomness and chance.- Working with adversity.- Working with love.- Working with freedom, responsibility and choice.- Conclusion.- References

Erscheinungsdatum	11.09.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 232 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
Schlagworte	Development • Existentialism • Human Development • Philosophy • Psychology • Therapeut
ISBN-10	1-137-50473-0 / 1137504730
ISBN-13	978-1-137-50473-9 / 9781137504739
Zustand	Neuware