Phenomenology in Action in Psychotherapy On Pure Psychology and its Applications in Psychotherapy and Mental Health Care /

• Main Author: Owen, Ian Rory (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Contributions To Phenomenology, In Cooperation with The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, 79
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Phenomenology.; Psychoanalysis.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.

This book takes Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology and applies it to help psychotherapy practitioners formulate complex psychological problems. The reader will learn about Husserl’s system of understanding and its concepts that point to first-person lived experience, and about the work of Husserl schola...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1 Introduction: The naturalistic attitude cannot grasp meaning for consciousness
• Part I: Defining phenomenology and pure psychology
• 2 Phenomenology and meaning for consciousness
• 3 Two interpretative positions in phenomenology
• 4 The reflective method of the pure psychology of consciousness
• 5 Concluding on the ideals of the things themselves
• Part II: The findings on meaning for consciousness
• 6 Concluding on biopsychosocial essences
• 7 The being of consciousness
• 8 The pure psychology of meaning
• 9 Consciousness in its habitat of other consciousness
• Part III: Applying pure psychology to psychotherapy and mental health care
• 10 Formulations of intentionality
• 11 On meta-representation: The theoretical and practical consequences of intentionality
• 12 Two telling examples about belief and time
• 13 A formulation of the ego and its context
• 14 Formulating syndromes
• 15 On being unable to control variables in intersubjectivity
• 16 Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Name index
• Subject index.