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| Acknowledgements | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Framework of Existential Therapy | |
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| Theoretical background and history | |
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| Some of the major existential philosophers | |
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| Limits of human living: the givens of existence | |
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| Living in time | |
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| Living with paradox | |
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| Anxiety and the givens of existence | |
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| The mind and the body | |
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| The Person of the Therapist | |
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| Who are you? | |
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| The use of life experience to reflect on life and its meanings | |
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| Being-with: reciprocity and trust collaboration | |
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| Capacity for self-reliance and individuality | |
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| Transparency and wisdom | |
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| Who are you as a therapist? | |
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| The importance of personal therapy in your training | |
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| How to use supervision? | |
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| Working Phenomenologically: The Centre of Existential Therapy | |
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| Phenomenology: assumptions, biases, blind spots and the worldview | |
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| The assumptions of existential therapy | |
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| Questioning assumptions | |
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| Working phenomenologically | |
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| Developing an Existential Attitude | |
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| Openness to experience | |
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| Boundaries and consistency | |
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| Mutuality and dialogue | |
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| Self-disclosure | |
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| Directiveness, directness and direction | |
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| From Theory into Practice | |
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| Expression and self-expression: the paradox of the self | |
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| Identifying themes and issues | |
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| Identifying values and beliefs | |
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| Emotions as a compass | |
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| Choice and responsibility | |
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| Anxiety: authenticity, guilt and bad faith | |
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| Working with dreams and the imagination | |
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| What Really Matters to the Client | |
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| Some first principles | |
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| Dilemmas, conflicts and tensions | |
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| The physical dimension. Coming face to face with life and death: the reality of change and loss, in the Umwelt. | |
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| The social dimension. Isolation and connectedness: relationships in the Mitwelt | |
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| The personal dimension. Freedom and a personal sense of integrity: life patterns and the original project in the Eigenwelt | |
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| The spiritual dimension. Consistency of values, beliefs and principles in the �berwelt | |
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| The Process of Existential Therapy | |
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| Existential therapy as storytelling | |
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| Meeting, assessment and diagnosis | |
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| Note taking | |
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| The influence of the frame and the context of therapy | |
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| The first session and the contract | |
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| Length of the contract | |
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| Fees | |
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| The beginning and end of sessions | |
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| Working through, reluctance and resistance | |
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| Endings and termination | |
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| Therapy as a learning process | |
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| Putting it All Together: Summing Up | |
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| Summarizing the philosophical basis of existential practice | |
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| Summarizing the principles of existential practic | |
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| Developing a personal style | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |