Existential Perspectives in Transactional Analysis

The Development of the Adult Self and the Human Search for Meaning
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-75691-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Innovations in Transactional Analysis: Theory and Practice

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 Berne’s 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.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cook, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Gerontopsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Rachel Cook is a fully qualified UKCP registered Counsellor, Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor and Trainer. She has worked in psychotherapy and education for 30 years.