Understanding Experience: Psychotherapy and Postmodernism (Paperback)

by Roger Frie (Editor) "This collection of interdisciplinary chapters seeks to explore the human capacity for experience..." (more)
Key Phrases: dialogical psychotherapy, healing through meeting, social filters, New York, Martin Buber, Basic Books (more...)

Editorial Reviews

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"An accessible and extremely timely assessment of postmodernism in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, this book will be very helpful to readers." -- Michael Palmer, Westminster College, Oxford

"An immensely stimulating and important work for the contemporary clinician . . . raises valuable questions about postmodernism. I recommend this book highly." -- Darlene Bregman Ehrenberg, author, The Intimate Edge: Extending the Reach of Psychoanalytic Interaction

"For anyone wishing to know why the concept of "experience" is still a crucial one. . . Frie's volume will be indispensable." -- Malcolm Bowie, Master, Christ's College, Cambridge

Roger Frie has produced an immensely stimulating and important work for the contemporary clinician. This collection of essays from a range of esteemed contributors, including Frie, bridges theory and practice and guides the reader through the postmodern debate in a way that renders it refreshingly accessible. It raises valuable questions about postmodernism and the clinical issues of agency, authenticity and subjectivity. I recommend this book highly. - Darlene Bregman Ehrenberg, PhD, Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology

This essay collection is doubly remarkable: it not only calls for new kinds of dialogue between philosophy, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, but it points the modern reader back to a whole series of complex earlier encounters between these disciplines. For anyone wishing to know why the concept of experience is still a crucial one for all sciences of the mind, Fries volume will be indispensable. - Malcolm Bowie, Master Christs College, Cambridge

Product Description
Understanding Experience: Psychotherapy and Postmodernism is a collection of innovative interdisciplinary essays that explore the way we experience and interact with each other and the world around us. The authors address the postmodern debate in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis through clinical and theoretical discussion and offer a view of the person that is unique and relevant today.

The clinical work of Binswanger, Boss, Fromm, Fromm-Reichmann, Laing, and Lacan is considered alongside the theories of Buber, Heidegger, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre and others. Combining clinical data from psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with insights from European philosophy, this book seeks to fill a major gap in the debate over postmodernism and bridges the paradigmatic divide between the behavioural sciences and the human sciences.

It will be of great interest to clinicians and students of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis who wish to come to terms with postmodernism, as well as those interested in the interaction of psychoanalysis, philosophy and social theory.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (April 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583919007
• ISBN-13: 978-1583919002
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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