Roger Frie - Understanding Experience: Psychotherapy and Postmodernism

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Understanding Experience

Understanding Experience: Psychotherapy and Postmodernism is a collection of innovative interdisciplinary essays that explore the way we experience and interact with each other and the world around us. The authors address the postmodern debate in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis through clinical and theoretical discussion and offer a view of the person that is unique and relevant today.

The clinical work of Binswanger, Boss, Fromm, Fromm-Reichmann, Laing, and Lacan is considered alongside the theories of Buber, Heidegger, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre and others. Combining clinical data from psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with insights from European philosophy, this book seeks to fill a major gap in the debate over postmodernism and bridges the paradigmatic divide between the behavioural sciences and the human sciences.

It will be of great interest to clinicians and students of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis who wish to come to terms with postmodernism, as well as those interested in the interaction of psychotherapy, philosophy and social theory.

Roger Frie, Ph.D., Psy.D., is Assistant Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Staff Psychologist at St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center. He is the author of Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Modern Philosophy and Psychoanalysis.

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Psychotherapy and Postmodernism

Edited by Roger Frie

LONDON AND NEW YORK

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First published 2003 by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.

2003 selection and editorial matter Roger Frie;
individual chapters, the contributors

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Understanding experience : psychotherapy and postmodernism /
edited by Roger Frie.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-58391-299-1 ISBN 1-58391-900-7 (pbk.)
1. Experience. 2. PsychotherapyPhilosophy. 3. Psychoanalysis
and philosophy. 4. PostmodernismPsychological aspects. I. Frie,
Roger, 1965
B105.E9 U53 2003
150.19'5dc21
2002013357

ISBN 0-203-69556-9 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-69826-6 (OEB Format)

ISBN 1-58391-900-7 (pbk)

ISBN 1-58391-299-1 (hbk)

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Daniel Burston, Ph.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, and an associate of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He holds doctorates in psychology and in social and political thought from York University, Toronto. His first book, The Legacy of Erich Fromm, was translated into Japanese, and articles of his have appeared in translation in German, Spanish and Mandarin. Other books include The Wing of Madness: The Life and Work of R. D. Laing and The Crucible of Experience: R. D. Laing and the Crisis of Psychotherapy. His books have been reviewed in numerous journals and newspapers, including the New York Times Book Review, New York Review of Books, Boston Sunday Globe, New Republic, Times Literary Supplement, Sunday Times, Observer, Guardian, Financial Times, and The Economist.

Betty Cannon, Ph.D. Ph.D. is a psychologist practicing in Boulder, Colorado. She is professor emerita of the Colorado School of Mines, senior adjunct professor at Naropa University, and adjunct professor at Union Graduate School. She is co-founder and co-director of the Boulder Psychotherapy Institute, which offers advanced training for mental health professionals. She is on the editorial board of three international journals,