Existential Group Counselling and Psychotherapy provides a theoretical and practical foundation for practice. It serves as a guide that provides a solid grounding in the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of therapeutic group-work from an existential perspective.
The first section of the book, Modern Origins, offers a review of modern western sources: a survey of early developments, what formats have endured, and to what extent these antecedents have informed, but are distinct from, current paradigms. The second section, Being and Doing, provides a description of the existential phenomenological paradigm for group therapeutic groupwork, reviewing possible therapeutic effects, as well as risks and disappointments that may affect both members, and facilitators. Part three, Doing and Being, covers practice, procedure, and possible problems.
Written in a practical, accessible style, and incorporating clinical vignettes and anecdotal material, the book will be relevant for counsellors and psychotherapists in training and practice, as well as for special interest organisations that sponsor groups.
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Elegantly written and highly accessible to all practitioners interested in group work, Karen Weixel-Dixon's Existential Group Psychotherapy and Counselling provides a much-needed exploration of group therapy as understood and practiced from an existential perspective. In addition, Weixel-Dixon's emphasis on the possibilities of a dialogue-driven approach both reflects the principles of existential therapy and clarifies their relationally-grounded implications.
Professor Ernesto Spinelli, author of Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World.
"The doing of therapy is essentially grounded in a philosophy of Being." This idea is found throughout this formidable book where we learn about the origins of an existential-phenomenological model for working with groups, going deeper into the themes, processes and aspects of this approach to both counseling and psychotherapy. It will undoubtedly become a classic for understanding the possibilities of the Existential approach.
Yaqui Andrés Martínez Robles. Ph.D Founder of the Círculo de Estudios en Terapia Existencial (Circle of Studies in Existential Therapy). Mexico Elegantly written and highly accessible to all practitioners interested in group work, Karen Weixel-Dixon's Existential Group Counselling and Psychotherapy provides a much-needed exploration of group therapy as understood and practiced from an existential perspective. In addition, Weixel-Dixon's emphasis on the possibilities of a dialogue-driven approach both reflects the principles of existential therapy and clarifies their relationally-grounded implications.
Professor Ernesto Spinelli, author of Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World
The "doing" of therapy is essentially grounded in a philosophy of Being. This idea is found throughout this formidable book where we learn about the origins of an existential-phenomenological model for working with groups, going deeper into the themes, processes and aspects of this approach to both counseling and psychotherapy. It will undoubtedly become a classic for understanding the possibilities of the Existential Approach.
Yaqui Andrés Martínez Robles, Ph.D., Founder of the Círculo de Estudios en Terapia Existencial (Circle of Studies in Existential Therapy) Mexico
00. Introduction;
01. Part One: Modern Western Origins; Historical
Overview;
02. Kurt Lewin;
03. Wilfred Bion;
04. S.H Foulkes;
05. Carl Rogers;
06. Irvin D. Yalom;
07. Conclusion and Summary part one;
08. Part Two: Being
and Doing; Towards an Existential Phenomenological Model for Group
psychotherapy and Counselling;
09. Why Group;
10. The Existential Givens
Human Existence;
11. Time and Temporality;
12. Relatedness;
13. Uncertainty,
Angst and Anxiety;
14. Freedom, Choice, and Change;
15. Death;
16. Meaning,
Meaninglessness, and Nothingness;
17. Embodiment and Spatiality;
18.
Emotions;
19. Language;
20. The World-View;
21. The Contributions of
Existential Phenomenology;
22. The Contributions of Hermeneutics;
23. The
Nature of Problems and the Process of Change;
24. Relational Issues;
25.
Conclusion and Summary part two;
26. Part Three: Doing and Being; Forming,
Maintaining, and Ending the Group;
27. Risks, disappointments, benefits, and
therapeutic effects;
28. Focal points: responsibilities of the facilitator,
the members, the group;
29. The Ways of Dialogue;
30. An existential
phenomenological model for dreamwork in group;
31. Difficult and Challenging
Behaviours;
32. The Ambiguity of Ethics (with apologies to Simone De
Beauvoir);
33. Conclusion and Summary part three
Karen Weixel-Dixon is a psychotherapist, supervisor, and accredited mediator in private practice, and a visiting lecturer at Regent's University London. Her paradigm is existential phenomenological, and she is particularly interested in how people experience, and engage with, time.
