Living Your Own Life Existential Analysis in Action

This multi-author anthology is a short introduction to the world of existential psychotherapy, and specifically Existential Analysis. It gives concrete answers and demonstrates a way to apply this thinking in practice, providing outlines of its theoretical background, including Alfried Langle's four fundamental motivations.The mian themes of the book are: working with emotionality and subjective experience and its importance for a fulfilling life; meaning and happiness; and spirituality and temporality. It covers psychological disorders and their treatment in adults and children, and also deals with disability and handicap.

Foreword , Can I rely on my feelings? , Meaning and happiness: on the vital significance of meaning , Spirituality in psychotherapy? The relationship of immanence and transcendence in existential analysis , The dimension of time as a challenge to truthful existence , Steps towards meaning: the method of grasping meaning , Crisis: threat and opportunity , Fear: the royal road to existence—what hides behind fundamental fear and anticipatory anxiety? , “I am afraid of falling out of this world”: a case study of a patient with severe mutism and complete social withdrawal , The path towards inner motion: an existential-analytic psychotherapy on depression , “ ... And after a suicide attempt I have to keep on living!” , “After all, only dumb people can be happy”: narcissistic personalities , Anna: the child wounded in her boundaries , Sandplay: therapy with a child of divorced parents , Encountering a disabled person: attitude and experience of the therapist , Afterword , Useful Websites

Silvia Laengle