When Death enters the Therapeutic Space

摘要

Laura Barnett's book brings together chapters by clinicians using an existential approach to psychological work in a variety of areas, including bereavement, trauma, intensive care, HIV, palliative care, and suicidality. Between chapters, one-page summaries introduce key existential concepts, The book begins and ends with chapters about the philosophy from which existential psychotherapy grew. Essentially, existential psychotherapy holds that reflecting upon death, and acknowledging that our lives will one day end, allows us better to use the time we have left.