EAN: 9783319780863

THE FOUNDATIONS OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL PSYCHOTHERA...

This book addresses selected central questions in phenomenological psychology  a discipline
that investigates the experience of self that emerges over the course of an individual's life 
while also outlining a new method  the formal indication  as a means of accessing personal
experience while remaining faithful to its uniqueness. In phenomenological psychology  the
psyche no longer refers to an isolated self that remains unchanged by life's changing
situations  but is rather a phenomenon (ipseity) which manifests itself and constantly takes
form over the course of a person's unique existence. Thus  the formal indication allows us to
study the way in which ipseity relates to the world in different situations  in a way that
holds different meanings for different people. Based on this new approach  phenomenological
psychotherapy marks a transition from a mode of grasping the truth about oneself through
reflection  to a mode of accessing the disclosure of self through a work of self-transformation
(the care of self) that requires the person to actually change her position on herself. By
putting forward this method  the authors shed new light on the dynamic interplay between a
person's historicity and uniqueness on the one hand  and the related physiopathological
mechanisms on the other  providing evidence from the fields of genetics  cardiology  the
neurosciences and psychiatry. The book will appeal to a broad readership  from psychiatrists 
psychologist and psychotherapists  to researchers in these fields.

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