Post-existential Psychotherapy: Towards a practice without foundations

Authors

  • Del Lowenthal Author

Keywords:

Existentialism, post-existentialism, phenomenology, post-phenomenology, modernism, post-modernism, psychotherapy Existential: this is a very old term, which has changed its meaning over the centuries. Its meaning in ancient Greek EXISTASTHAI, [is] ‘depart from’, ‘change one’s position’, ‘be astonished’. (Heaton, 1990: 2)

Abstract

The article reformulates meaning in psychotherapy as contextual and emerging, giving primacy to practice through re-opening existentialism in the name of post-existentialism. It will be argued that existential psychotherapy has become stuck and is less likely to have the ‘astonishing’ and ‘changing’ essences of existentialism and more likely to be apolitical.

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Vol. 35 No. 2 (2024)

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Published

2024-07-01

Issue

Vol. 35 No. 2 (2024): Existential Analysis

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Articles