Living Your Own Life

Silvia Langle, PhD, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Vienna, a training therapist of the Austrian Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis, and a Board Member of the International Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis. She has been Editor-in-chief of the journal 'Existenzanalyse' since 1995. She studied theory of science and theoretical physics in Innsbruck, Munich and Vienna. Encountering V. E. Frankl aroused her interest in Existential Psychotherapy as a phenomenological practice, prompting her to reflect on its relationship to the theory of science, and then to undergo her own training as a therapist. Christopher Wurm studied Medicine and German at the University of Adelaide, then trained as a Family Physician and studied Existential Psychotherapy in Vienna. In 2003 he was made a Foundation Fellow of the Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine. He has worked in Australia, England and Austria in clinical and teaching roles in Primary Care, Teaching Hospitals and Community Mental Health. He became Visiting Fellow, Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide in 2007. He is currently Senior Consultant, Drug and Alcohol Consultation Liaison Service, at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Sefton Park Primary and Ambulatory Care, as well as GP Psychotherapist and Addiction Physician in private practice at Pooraka, South Australia.

Foreword , Can I rely on my feelings? , Meaning and happiness: on the vital significance of meaning , Spirituality in psychotherapy? The relationship of immanence and transcendence in existential analysis , The dimension of time as a challenge to truthful existence , Steps towards meaning: the method of grasping meaning , Crisis: threat and opportunity , Fear: the royal road to existence—what hides behind fundamental fear and anticipatory anxiety? , “I am afraid of falling out of this world”: a case study of a patient with severe mutism and complete social withdrawal , The path towards inner motion: an existential-analytic psychotherapy on depression , “ ... And after a suicide attempt I have to keep on living!” , “After all, only dumb people can be happy”: narcissistic personalities , Anna: the child wounded in her boundaries , Sandplay: therapy with a child of divorced parents , Encountering a disabled person: attitude and experience of the therapist , Afterword , Useful Websites