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Author Bugental, James F. T.

Title The search for authenticity; an existential-analytic approach to psychotherapy [by] J. F. T. Bugental.

Publication Info. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1965]

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  616.8916 B931S    Check Shelf
Description xix, 437 pages ; 22 cm
Contents 1. The human frontier -- Humanistic psychology and existentialism, Humanistic psychology, The existential-analytic thesis -- 2. Man's "thrown" condition -- Other important concepts -- 3. Authenticity: the central concern of psychotherapy -- Authenticity as the primary existential value -- 4. The experience, concept, and procedure of existential-analytic therapy -- 5. The therapeutic relation: essential medium of therapy -- Psychodiagnostics and the quest for certainty, Iatrogenic complications, Developing the therapeutic alliance -- 6. The existential meaning of the resistance -- Characteristics of the resistance -- 7. The analysis of the resistance -- Listening to the patient, The therapist's interventions -- 8. The analysis of the transference -- The transference and the therapeutic relation analytic procedure -- 9. Tragedy and the psychotherapeutic processes -- Meaning of tragedy, Tragedy and the therapeutic work -- 10. The existential crisis -- Conceptualizing the existential crisis, Therapeutic procedure in the existential crisis -- 11. What is a person? -- 12. The I, the Me, and the Self -- The I-process, The Self, Implications of the I-Self distinction for actualization and the transference -- 13. Awareness: the basic process of being -- The nature of awareness -- 14. Ontologic aids to expanding awareness -- 15. Ontologic freedom: emancipation from the self -- The nature of ontologic freedom, Emancipation -- 16. Ontologic freedom: actualization and transference -- Transcendence, Conclusion -- 17. Courage or dread: the existential issue -- The confrontation of existential anxiety -- 18. The existential neuroses -- Response to the anxiety of fate and death, Response to the anxiety of guilt and condemnation, Response to the anxiety of emptiness and meaninglessness, Response to the anxiety of loneliness and isolation -- 19. Ontogogy: in support of courage: A. Freeding from the Self and the response of faith -- Emancipation from the Self, Contingency and faith -- 20. Ontogogy: in support of courage: B. The responses of commitment, creativity, and love -- Responsibility and commitment, Autonomy and creativity, Apartness and love -- 21. The person who is the therapist -- Gratifications in being a therapist, Maturity of the psychotherapist -- 22. Psychotherapy and emergent man -- 23. Beyond the human frontier -- Further levels of emergence, The inner life of emergent man, An emergent society, Beyond the human frontier.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 417-426.
Subject Psychotherapy.
Existential psychology.
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