Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy:: Guideposts to the Core of Practice Book

Preface Kirk J. Schneider VII

Introduction 1

Part 1 Recent and Future Trends in Existential-Integrative Psychotheraphy

1 From Segregation to Integration 15

2 A Student Point of View: Existential Psychotheraphy From Within the Training Process Ann Bassett-Short Glenn A. Hammel 23

Part 2 Guideposts to an Existential-Integrative (EI) Approach

3 Theory of the Existential-Integrative (EI) Approach 35

4 Therapeutic Implications of the Theory 46

Appendix 89

Part 3 Case Illustrations of the EI Model

5 EI Approaches to Multiculturalism 99

Latino Psychospirituality Lillian Comas-Diaz 100

An African American Perspective: The Case of Darrin Donadrian L. Rice 110

Existentialism of Personalism: A Native American Perspective Royal Alsup 121

6 EI Perspectives on Gender, Power, and Sexuality 129

Feminist Therapy as a Meaning-Making Practice: Where There Is No Power, Where Is the Meaning? Laura S. Brown 130

A Lesbian and Gay Perspective: The Case of Marcia Joan Monheit 140

Women and the Midlife Crisis: The Anne Sexton Complex Ilene Serun 146

7 Innovations in Short-Term EI Practices 165

Preliminary Sketches for a Short-Term Existential-Humanistic Therapy James F. T. Bugental 165

Brief Encounters with Chinese Clients: The Case of Peter John Galvin 168

8 EI Mediation of Addiction: Alcoholism 177

A Perspective on Alcoholism: The Case of Charles Barbara Ballinger Robert A. Matano Adrianne C. Amantea 177

9 Spiritual and Religious Issues From an EI Perspective 187

An EI Approach to Working with Religious and Spiritual Clients Louis Hoffman 187

10 Cognitive-Behavioral Innovations of EI Practice 203

Existential Issues in AnxietyDisorders and Their Treatment Barry E. Wolfe 204

Language and Meaning: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and the EI Model Kara Bunting Steven C. Hayes 217

11 EI Approaches to Severe States 235

Dante's Cure: Schizophrenia and the Two-Person Journey Daniel Dorman 236

Meditations on Dissociation: Kristina and the Enigmatic Self Ed Mendelowitz 245

12 EI Emphases on the Inter subjective 267

Relatedness: Where Existential and Psychoanalytic Approaches Converge Dennis Portnoy 268

Autobiographical and Theoretical Reflections on the "Ontological Unconsciousness" Robert D. Stolorow 281

Transformance, Recognition of Self by Self, and Effective Action Diana Fosha 290

13 EI Child Therapy 321

The Inner Sense of the Child: The Case of Joey Stephen Curtin 321

14 EI Encounters With Death and Dying 333

Swimming Together in a Sea of Loss: A Group Process for Elders Elizabeth K. Bugental 333

Reflections on the Depressed and Dying: The Case of Carol Tom Greening 342

Summary and Conclusion 347

Index