The present study seeks to analyze the meaning of experience lived by the relatives of a Multiple Sclerosis patient. The methodology employed is hermeneutical phenomenology based on the philosophy of Heidegger. The disease appeared to be experienced as an entity. The experience caused changes in family cohesion as well as ...

This study explores how participants experience spirituality, what it means to them and how it affects their lives and relationships. The study reports data from semi-structured interviews with four participants, analysed using IPA. It is suggested that the existential-phenomenological approach can offer a suitable framework for exploring spiritual experiences.

In this paper I explore what I call the habituation of novelty within psychotherapy. I make recommendations for the practice of existential assessment too. Both are informed by the observation that psychotherapy within state-funded settings no longer exists, because the state-funded psychotherapist no longer exists (Szasz, 2003).

An attempt to comment on the low level of attention to the transpersonal in the journal Existential Analysis. In view of the eminent existentialists who have expressed a personal interest in the spiritual realms, this seems odd. Some possible lines of enquiry are pursued.

This paper offers an account of experiences felt when supporting a severely disabled individual. It discusses the dilemmas that these experiences raised and attempts to explain them using Heideggerian language: Is this individual a 'Dasein' or simply another entity, did this individual 'leap ahead' and open up the author's possibilities ...

This paper reflects upon working as an existential practitioner within a time-limited setting, and explores using this limitation to the benefit of the therapeutic endeavour. I offer a brief overview of some key existential thinking on time and temporality, and a review of key definitions of time-limited practice. A case ...

This paper shows that while Sartre's account of love relations in Being and Nothingness is famously conflictual, his Notebooks for an Ethics offers a far more positive account. It pays particular attention to the role that each lover's pre-reflective fundamental project plays in shaping the content of their love relationship.

This paper explores the relationship between the ideas of Minkowski, a psychiatrist working at the beginning of the 19th century, Sartre, a key existential philosopher, and depression. Minkowski's exploration of the time dimension and Sartre's writings on choice, responsibility and self-construction are considered in relation to depression and psychotherapy.

This paper considers Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis in light of a dichotomy between age as a font of wisdom and experience, and, conversely, as a gruesome fate for those that survive youth. It is inspired by my counselling work with disability and infirmity.

This paper explores some of the areas of convergence between Tao and Heidegger's thought. More specifically, the analysis touches upon the different manners in which the concepts of totality and interdependence, and being and nothing are encountered in Tao and Heidegger's work and how they are reflected in therapeutic practice.

This study explores the lived experiences of six traumatically bereaved women. The participants were interviewed and the data was analysed using a Descriptive Phenomenological approach. Five main themes emerged which revealed the phenomenology of Traumatic Bereavement and an existential model for therapeutic work was proposed.

This paper attempts to describe two approaches to psychotherapy: Existential-Phenomenological Psychotherapy (EPP) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), in the context of the governance role of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and its demand for evidence-based practice, exploring how the two modalities interact with each other, where ...

Humans naturally interface transparently with tools, thus extending through them. Advancing technology has finally produced tools that begin to match our capacities, integrating them more transparently with our minds. We move from tool users towards cybernetic minds, taking our unique human neuroplasticity to the next level.

This brief article is designed primarily to continue the dialogue started at the annual SEA conference held in London in November 2011. Below I present some predictions about the evolution of human life on earth. I ask what role existential therapists might have in responding to these developments, if they ...