An Existential Approach to Human Development
Philosophical and Therapeutic Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 11. August 2018
229 pages
978-1-137-50474-6 (ISBN)
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Description
This textbook reviews for the first time the thinking of six major existential philosophers, Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir with respect to their ideas about human development. Martin Adams presents a philosophical and psychological analysis, and critically evaluates the different ways that existential philosophy can illuminate the way we all strive for meaning and purpose in life. Written in a detailed, well-structured manner, this text offers a fundamentally different way to understand not only life in general but the practice of psychotherapy in particular.
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English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-137-50474-6 (9781137504746)
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I
- 1 A Short History of Human Development
- Human development in mythology
- The medieval period
- Shakespeare
- The Enlightenment
- Modernism
- Natural science and stage theory
- 2 Thinking Phenomenologically and Existentially about Human Development
- Phenomenology
- Phenomenology and human development
- The language of human development
- Principles of existential philosophy
- Defining human development existentially and phenomenologically
- Part II
- 3 Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55)
- Living with faith
- Philosophy
- Objectivity and subjectivity
- Kierkegaard and human development
- The Aesthetic sphere of existence
- Sexuality
- Temporality
- The Ethical sphere of existence
- The Religious sphere of existence
- Addiction
- The paradox of the self in relationships
- 4 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
- Living with power
- Reading Nietzsche
- Philosophy
- 'God is dead'
- Christianity and slave morality
- The body
- The human spirit
- Nietzsche and human development
- The three metamorphoses
- The 'last man'
- Time, temporality and eternal recurrence
- 5 Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
- Living in time
- Philosophy
- Temporality and anxiety
- Authenticity and inauthenticity
- Heidegger and human development
- The meaning and development of death awareness
- Three dimensions of temporality
- The future
- The past
- The present
- Authenticity and our relationship with the material world
- Thrownness and the development of Dasein
- 6 Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
- Living with nothingness
- Philosophy
- Sartre and human development
- The sense-of-self and the original project
- The influence of early experience
- The Look
- The visual look
- The touch
- The word
- Relationships with others
- Laing: engulfment, implosion and petrification
- Engulfment
- Implosion
- Petrification
- Mutuality and love
- 7 Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961)
- Living with embodiment
- Philosophy
- Perception and embodiment
- Merleau-Ponty and human development
- Early experience: primary undifferentiation
- The mirror and the world of others
- De-centering and re-centering
- Language acquisition
- Embodiment and imagination
- Incompleteness and loss
- Acquisition of a sense of perspective
- The changing effect of the look
- Narcissism
- Later development
- Sympathy and empathy
- Love
- Masculinity, femininity and the development of difference
- Pregnancy
- Gendered space
- 8 Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
- Living with others
- Philosophy
- Freedom, ethics and ambiguity
- Freedom, violence and other people
- Beauvoir and human development
- The development of freedom and morality
- Childhood
- Adolescence
- Adulthood
- Becoming a woman
- Objectification and the development of gender identity
- Infancy and childhood
- Puberty and adolescence
- Adulthood
- Motherhood
- Growing old(er)
- Part III
- 9 Implications for Therapeutic Practice
- Working with age
- Working with young(er) people
- Working with old(er) people
- Working with truth, narrative and the sense-of-self
- Working with beginnings and endings
- Working with embodiment
- Working with randomness and chance
- Working with adversity
- The skills learning process
- Working with love
- Working with freedom, responsibility and choice
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
