The Foundations of Phenomenological Psychotherapy (eBook)

Giampiero Arciero, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, is the Director of the Institute of Post-Rationalist Psychology and Psychotherapy, Rome, Italy (IPRA), and a consultant in the Psychiatric Liaison and Crisis Intervention Service at the Department of Mental Health and Psychiatry, Geneva University Hospitals, where he also serves as a professor of psychotherapy and is involved in the Diploma of Advanced Studies in Cognitive-Behavior Psychotherapy. He is a visiting professor at the University of Bari "Aldo Moro" (Italy) . He has worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Fribourg (CH), as associate director of the Personal Development Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA), and as a professor of psychotherapy at the University of Siena (Italy). He is the author of several peer-reviewed publications as well as three  books.Guido Bondolfi is currently full professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva and is the chief medical officer of the Psychiatric Liaison and Crisis Intervention Service at the University Hospitals of Geneva, Department of Mental Health and Psychiatry. A specialist in psychiatry-psychotherapy and mindfulness instructor (MBCT and MBSR), his research interests include cognitive psychotherapy, mood disorders and the application of meditation-based approaches in psychiatry. He has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications and two books. Viridiana Mazzola currently works as a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and researcher in neuroscience at the Psychiatric Liaison and Crisis Intervention Service at the University Hospitals of Geneva Department of Mental Health and Psychiatry. She coordinates the research in the field of the medical psychology, and her interests focus on investigating the impact of individual differences in affective dispositions in psychopathology and functional medical symptoms through brain-imaging techniques (fMRI). She is the co-director of the Institute of Post-Rationalist Psychology and Psychotherapy (IPRA, Rome, Italy). She has been an adjunct professor of developmental psychology, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Prof. Luigia Camaioni), and a neuroscience postdoc at the University of Geneva with Prof. Patrik Vuilleumier.  

Prologue: A User’s ManualPart I: The Crisis. The Natural Sciences and the Unthought Debt Chapter 1. On the Care Path Chapter 2. Creatures, Technology, and Scientific PsychologyChapter 3. “Nemo psychologus nisi physiologus”Part II:  A New Beginning . Formal Indication, Non-Rationalist Psychology, and Phenomenological PsychotherapyChapter 4. The accesses to oneselfChapter 5. Self -intimacy and individuationChapter 6. Personal stories and psychotherapyChapter 7. Traces of Oneself and HealingPart III: The Renewed Pact. Corporeality, Experimentation, and the Care of SelfChapter 8. Corporeality and ipseityChapter 9. Corporeality and organismsChapter 10. Organisms and freedomChapter 11. The Care of Self and PsychotherapyBibliographyAuthor Index