This non-fiction book addresses the major theme of life and death in a unique way: it focuses on the founders of psychotherapy schools and discusses their lifestyle, their style of dying, and their work. How did they live? What trials and tribulations did they go through in the course of their lives? What crises did they experience, and how did they overcome them? What conclusions did they draw from these experiences? And finally: how did they die? Engaging and easy to read, it reveals that their attitude towards life and death influences the development of their respective psychotherapy methods.

Written for interested laypeople, practicing and training psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and counselors.

Content Overview:

Freud, Jung, Adler, Moreno, Perls, Reich, von Dürckheim, Peseschkian their perspectives on life and death and its significance for their psychotherapy schools.

About the Author:

Werner Gross, Dipl.-Psych., psychotherapist, supervisor and coach, organizational and business consultant.

Enlightening for Everyone: Life, Work, Death What Do Psychotherapists Say? Great Founders of Psychotherapy Schools: The Connection Between Personality and Method Well-Written: Reads Like a Thriller

Autorentext

Werner Gross , Dipl.-Psych., psychotherapist, supervisor and coach, organizational and business consultant. He runs a psychological practice in Gelnhausen, Germany. He is also a lecturer in psychology at various universities and training institutes for psychotherapists.

Klappentext

This non-fiction book addresses the significant theme of life and death in a unique way: it focuses on the founders of psychotherapy schools and narrates their lifestyles, dying styles, and contributions. How did they live? What confusions and challenges did they face throughout their lives, what crises did they endure, and how did they overcome them? What conclusions did they draw from these experiences? And finally: how did they die? It becomes clear in an entertaining and readable manner that their attitude towards life and death influences the development of their respective psychotherapy methods.

Written for interested laypeople, psychotherapists in practice and training, psychiatrists, and consultants.

Content Overview

Freud, Jung, Adler, Moreno, Perls, Reich, von Dürckheim, Peseschkian their perspectives on life and death and their significance for their psychotherapy schools.

About the Author

Werner Gross, Dipl.-Psych., psychotherapist, supervisor, and coach, organizational and business consultant.

The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

Inhalt

Sigmund Freud: The Morphing Damped Pain of Dying.- Interlude I: On Aging.- Alfred Adler: Sudden Death While Walking.- Interlude II: On Dying.- Wilhelm Reich: Destruction of a Heretic.- Interlude III: The Stages of Dying.- Jacob L. Moreno: "Playing God" or: Directing Until the Last Scene.- Interlude IV: Types of Death and Styles of Dying.- Fritz Perls: "You Will Not Tell Me What to Do.".- Interlude V: Grief and Humor.- C.G. Jung: Anticipation of the Coming Adventure.- Interlude VI: Finitude Lifetime Dying Time (Small Exercises).- Karlfried Graf Dürckheim: Endured Pain During Conscious Transition.- Interlude VII: Images of Humanity and Therapy Goals in Psychotherapy.- Nossrat Peseschkian: Gliding Over in Sleep.- Epilogue: Live Your Dying.