Existential therapy has been practiced and continues to bepracticed in many forms and situations throughout the world. Butuntil now, it has lacked a coherent structure, and analysis of itstenets, and an evaluation of its usefulness. Irvin Yalom, whoseTheory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy has rendered such aservice to that discipline since 1970, provides existentialpsychotherapy with a background, a synthesis, and a framework.Organized around what Yalom identifies as the four ultimateconcerns of lifedeath, freedom, existential isolation, andmeaninglessnessthe book takes up the meaning of each existentialconcern and the type of conflict that springs from ourconfrontation with each. He shows how these concerns are manifestedin personality and psychopathology, and how treatment can be helpedby our knowledge of them. Drawing from clinical experience,empirical research, philosophy, and great literature, Yalom haswritten a broad and comprehensive book. It will provide anintellectual home base for those p
The widely acclaimed "father of cognitive psychotherapy" adds anew introduction to the gold-standard book on anxiety disorders andphobias At the forefront of the cognitive revolution, renownedpsychiatrist Aaron T Beck turned to information processing in orderto understand the sources, consequences and cures of anxietydisorders and phobias. In the first half of this classic text, Beckelaborates on the clinical picture of anxiety disorders and phobiasand presents an explanatory model to account for the richcomplexity of these phenomena. Cognitive psychologist Gary Emerythen details the therapeutic principles, strategies and tacticsdeveloped on the basis of the cognitive model of anxiety disordersand phobias. This fifteenth anniversary edition of the foundationalwork on cognitive therapy features a new introduction by Beck, inwhich he offers an up-to-date appraisal of the current state ofcognitive therapy and its application to the treatment of phobiasand anxiety.
