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Aug 12, 2022 · Abstract. Yalom (1980) identified three forms of isolation: intrapersonal, interpersonal, and existential. This chapter focuses primarily on existential isolation, both as an existential reality and as a subjective experience. Existential isolation refers to the inherent unbridgeable gap between any two beings and the impossibility of knowing ...
Sep 28, 2021 · Existential isolation, Yalom explained, refers to the “unbridgeable gulf between oneself and any other human being,” and to a “separation between the individual and the world.” Nobody else in the world can ever know what you subjectively experience as you gaze at the sky above, as you embrace your kids after school, as you listen to the ...
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Carlo Strenger was a unique person, for many reasons. One such reason was his ability to integrate the existential (humanistic) and psychoanalytic schools of thought into a seamless whole. Nowhere is this seamless integration more apparent than in Strenger’s treatment of inner freedom. In this article, I juxtapose Irvin Yalom’s seminal work on the four existential concerns in ...
Existential therapy. Existential psychotherapy is a form of psychotherapy based on the model of human nature and experience developed by the existential tradition of European philosophy. It focuses on concepts that are universally applicable to human existence including death, freedom, responsibility, and the meaning of life. [1]
Existential Psychotherapy is a book about existential psychotherapy by the American psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom, in which the author, addressing clinical practitioners, offers a brief and pragmatic introduction to European existential philosophy, as well as to existential approaches to psychotherapy. He presents his four ultimate concerns of ...
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Mar 17, 2020 · Irvin D. Yalom. Basic Books, Mar 17, 2020 - Psychology - 416 pages. The definitive account of existential psychotherapy. First published in 1980, Existential Psychotherapy is widely considered to be the foundational text in its field— the first to offer a methodology for helping patients to develop more adaptive responses to life’s core ...
"Once again Irvin Yalom has produced a volume of great meaning and timeliness. He has crystallized the essence of existential psychotherapy. With numerous clinical illustrations and a thorough review of the literature, he has constructed a volume on conflicts which flow from the individual's confrontations with certain ultimate concerns: death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness.
