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The Foundations of Phenomenological Psychotherapy

  • Proposes a new method, the formal indication, as a meaningful phenomenological approach to psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy
  • Enables the transition from a mode of accessing oneself through reflection to phenomenological psychotherapy, which requires the subject to makes some changes to him- or herself
  • Creates a vital new bridge between phenomenological psychology and the natural sciences that revolves around corporeality

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. The Crisis: The Natural Sciences and the Unthought Debt

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. On the Care Path

      • Giampiero Arciero, Guido Bondolfi, Viridiana Mazzola
      Pages 3-26
    3. Creatures, Technology, and Scientific Psychology

      • Giampiero Arciero, Guido Bondolfi, Viridiana Mazzola
      Pages 27-51
    4. “Nemo psychologus nisi physiologus”

      • Giampiero Arciero, Guido Bondolfi, Viridiana Mazzola
      Pages 53-70
  3. A New Beginning: Formal Indication, Non-rationalist Psychology, and Phenomenological Psychotherapy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
    2. The Accesses to Oneself

      • Giampiero Arciero, Guido Bondolfi, Viridiana Mazzola
      Pages 73-97
    3. Self-Intimacy and Individuation

      • Giampiero Arciero, Guido Bondolfi, Viridiana Mazzola
      Pages 99-129
    4. Personal Stories and Psychotherapy

      • Giampiero Arciero, Guido Bondolfi, Viridiana Mazzola
      Pages 131-179
    5. Traces of Oneself and Healing

      • Giampiero Arciero, Guido Bondolfi, Viridiana Mazzola
      Pages 181-210
  4. The Renewed Pact: Corporeality, Experimentation, and the Care of Self

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211
    2. Corporeality and Ipseity

      • Giampiero Arciero, Guido Bondolfi, Viridiana Mazzola
      Pages 213-238
    3. Corporeality and Organisms

      • Giampiero Arciero, Guido Bondolfi, Viridiana Mazzola
      Pages 239-259
    4. Organisms and Freedom

      • Giampiero Arciero, Guido Bondolfi, Viridiana Mazzola
      Pages 261-289
    5. The Care of Self and Psychotherapy

      • Giampiero Arciero, Guido Bondolfi, Viridiana Mazzola
      Pages 291-318
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 319-343

About this book

This book addresses selected central questions in phenomenological psychology, a discipline that investigates the experience of self that emerges over the course of an individual’s life, while also outlining a new method, the formal indication, as a means of accessing personal experience while remaining faithful to its uniqueness.
 
In phenomenological psychology, the psyche  no longer refers to an isolated self that remains unchanged by life’s changing situations, but is rather a phenomenon (ipseity) which manifests itself and constantly takes form over the course of a person’s unique existence. Thus, the formal indication allows us to study the way in which ipseity relates to the world in different situations, in a way that holds different meanings for different people. 


Based on this new approach, phenomenological psychotherapy marks a transition from a mode of grasping the truth about oneself through reflection, to amode of accessing the  disclosure of self through a  work of self-transformation (the care of self) that requires the person  to actually change  her position on herself.


By putting forward this method, the authors shed new light on the dynamic interplay between a person’s historicity and uniqueness on the one hand, and the related physiopathological mechanisms on the other, providing evidence from the fields of genetics, cardiology, the neurosciences and psychiatry. The book will appeal to a broad readership, from psychiatrists, psychologist and psychotherapists, to researchers in these fields.


Authors and Affiliations

  • IPRA, Rome, Italy

    Giampiero Arciero

  • Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Geneva, Department of Psychiatry, Genève, Switzerland

    Guido Bondolfi

  • Liaison Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Geneva, Department of Psychiatry, Genève, Switzerland

    Viridiana Mazzola

About the authors

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 andis 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.

 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Foundations of Phenomenological Psychotherapy

  • Authors: Giampiero Arciero, Guido Bondolfi, Viridiana Mazzola

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78087-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78086-3Published: 12 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78087-0Published: 30 May 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 343

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Phenomenology, Psychopathology, Neurosciences, Clinical Psychology

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