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by Emmy van Deurzen (Author) "One day, in Copenhagen, in the early nineteenth century Soren Kierkegaard decided to take it upon himself to shake people out of their bourgeois complacency..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 307 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (26 Dec 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 041508704X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415087049
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 16 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Providing an in-depth introduction to existential psychotherapy, it presents a philosophical alternative to established forms of psychological treatment and emphasizes the problems of living which are often neglected in conventional practice


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At a time when psychotherapy and counselling are expanding rapidly, there is a need to challenge the established principles on which practice is based. Everyday Mysteries presents a philosophical alternative to accepted forms of psychological treatment. It emphasises the problems of living and the human dilemmas that are often neglected by practitioners who focus on personal psychopathology. Emmy van Deurzen encourages practitioners to adopt a critical perspective on the theory and practice of their growing profession.
The book clearly presents the philosophical ideas that underpin existential psychotherapy, summarising the contributions made by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Sartre among others. The author formulates a systematic and practical method of existential psychotherapy, illustrated with a detailed case study, and shows how existential ideas have been applied by a number of well-known psychotherapists and psychoanalysts over the past century.
Everyday Mysteries offers a fresh perspective for anyone training in psychotherapy, counselling or psychoanalysis. Those already established in practice will find this a stimulating source of ideas about ordinary, everyday living and the mysteries of human experience.
Emmy van Deurzen is a registered existential psychotherapist, chartered counselling psychologist, philosopher and founder of the Society for Existential Analysis. She is Professor and Dean of the School of 4sychotherapy and Counselling, Regent's College, London.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Actually I thought it was Brilliant!, 17 Jul 2004
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This review is from: Everyday Mysteries: Existential Dimensions of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
On the subject of Everyday Mysteries, I was rather mystified by the review from a reader in Ireland. I'd agree that Prof van Deuzen doesn't give as indepth an analysis of Jung or Laing as other volumes- but I don't think she's trying to do that anyway.

This book offers an easily accessible general overview of the philosophers and practitioners who have contributed to the contempory scene of existential psychotherapy. I've read hundreds of books and articles on existential psychotherapy and would consider this to be one of THE best introductions to the field and consider it a primary text book for undergraduate lectures on the subject. Those who wish to look into the philosophers or practitioners in more detail will have to go elsewhere, but Prof van Deurzen's references provide plenty of pointers for further reading.

I doubt Sartre would have been disapointed, unless of course he was expecting something else.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful introduction to existential psychotherapy, 2 Mar 2008
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This review is from: Everyday Mysteries: Existential Dimensions of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
This book provides an excellent basic introduction to existential therapy, and is particularly helpful in giving an overview of the work of some of the main existential thinkers and writers relevant to psychotherapy. The author's writing is always clear and straightforward, and the book is enjoyable and thought provoking.
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9 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Mysteries of alienation, 16 Oct 2003
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This review is from: Everyday Mysteries: Existential Dimensions of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
What a disappointment this book turned out to be. The problem is not with the scope of the book which is a considerable undertaking. It is the rather dismissive way that Ms van Deurzen Smith treats philosophers and psychoanalysts with whom she does not agree. The chapter on RD Laing renders Ronnie a rather pathetic figure, full of sixties nonsense. Her piece on CG Jung is at best, shallow and at worst, infantile. I feel that van Deurzen wilfully misses the point. Her critique of the Oedipus complex merely offers a different, more explicitly existentialist interpretation. Most of all, the book de-politicises individuals and society and is a diservice to psychotherapy in general. People - clients - are reduced to poor creatures who simply cannot understand the mysteries of life. Most of all, Van Deurzen-Smith fails to engage with why things go on "normally as normal". Power and hegemony are brushed aside and she appears happy to assist clients to be comfortable with a narcissistic world, groaning with the weight of commodity fetishism. Sartre would be disappointed too.
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