Skip to main content

Practical Applications and Clinical Case

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Existential Psychotherapy
  • 960 Accesses

Abstract

The final chapter presents four clinical vignettes as examples of the application of the principles of therapeutic effectiveness , as well as of existential interventions. It concludes with a clinical case which is intended to demonstrate the use of the genetic -phenomenological concepts applied to case conceptualization .

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 89.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 119.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 119.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Bernet, R. (2003). Gaze, drive and body in Lacan and Merleau-Ponty. In J. Corveleyn & P. Moyaert (Eds.), Psychosis: Phenomenological and psychoanalytical approaches. Leuven: Leuven University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bohart, A. C. (2002). How does the relationship facilitate productive client thinking? Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 32(1), 61–69.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Greenberg, L. S., & Paivio, S. C. (1997). Working with emotions in psychotherapy. New York: Guilford Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Heidegger, M. (1962). Being and time. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

    Google Scholar 

  • Safran, J. D., & Muran, J. C. (2000). Negotiating the therapeutic alliance. New York: Guildford Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sartre, J. P. (1994). A Transcedência do Ego. Lisboa: Edições Colibri.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sousa, D. (2015). Existential psychotherapy. The genetic-phenomenological approach: Beyond a dichotomy between relating and skills. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 45, 69–77.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Spinelli, E. (1997). Tales of un-knowing: Eight stories of existential therapy. New York: New York University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Spinelli, E. (2007). Practising existential psychotherapy. The relational world. London: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stolorow, R. (2007). Trauma and human existence. New York: The Analytic Press.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Daniel Sousa .

Copyright information

© 2017 The Author(s)

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Sousa, D. (2017). Practical Applications and Clinical Case. In: Existential Psychotherapy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95217-5_4

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics