This book offers experienced practitioners and trainees in psychotherapy and counselling a new, deeply personal and theoretically-grounded perspective on clinical work that integrates existential philosophy and psychotherapy into a relational transactional analysis.
The author employs a multidisciplinary perspective grounded in the traditions of Bernes transactional analysis, whilst providing an easily accessible explanation of existential psychotherapy and the existential givens of life. An innovative theory for the development of the adult self is offered that can be used to understand our human search for meaning and the existential life predicaments we all encounter as adults that may not originate from a difficult childhood. Using moving and personal clinical examples from her extensive professional experience as a psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer, the author highlights the different therapeutic skills that can be used when working from this stance, making this a highly practical guide for all practitioners.
Whilst predominantly for psychotherapists, counsellors and students on psychotherapy training courses, this will be essential reading for all practitioners working with human beings in groups, education and organisations, as well as those who are new to the principles of existentialism and transactional analysis.
This book offers experienced practitioners and trainees in psychotherapy and counselling a new, deeply personal and theoretically-grounded perspective on clinical work that integrates existential philosophy and psychotherapy into a relational transactional analysis.
Introduction: Life, Death, and Companionship Section 1: An Introduction
to Existential Psychotherapy and Transactional Analysis
1. What is
Existentialism and Existential Psychotherapy?
2. Authenticity, Alienation and
Encounter
3. The Quality of Relating: an Existential Approach to Ta Theory,
Methods and Methodology
4. Self-disclosure: Going Behind the Mystical Curtain
of Our Role
5. Diagnosis, Contracting and Treatment Planning: an Existential
Perspective Section 2: The Development of the Adult
6. The Developmental
Model of Adulthood: the Tasks and Conflicts of Adult Life Stages
7. Emerging
Adulthood: Entering the Adult World
8. Early Adulthood: Sculpting the
Landscape of Life
9. Middle Adulthood: Re-visiting Our Dreams
10. Mature
Adulthood: Living Well, Laughing Often, and Loving Much
11. Late Adulthood:
Maintaining the Indomitable Core Section 3: Death and Life
12. Death and
Endings: Balancing Death and Life
13. The Erotic Life Force: Being Sexual
Afterword: the End of the Expedition
Rachel Cook is a fully qualified UKCP registered Counsellor, Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor and Trainer. She has worked in psychotherapy and education for 30 years.
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