Psychotherapy and phenomenology : on Freud, Husserl and Heidegger

This Book Is A Scholarly Monograph On Sigmund Freud's Understanding Of The Basics Of Psychotherapy Theory And Practice From The Perspective Of Phenomenology. Two Leading Phenomenologists, Edmund Husserl And Martin Heidegger, Are Chosen To Make An Appraisal Of The Strengths And Weaknesses Of Freud's Interpretation Of Talking And Relating With Others. Heidegger Is Then Compared To Husserl To Produce A Position That Keeps A Focus On Intentionality Yet Accepts The Understanding Offered By Hermeneutics. This Work Is Relevant To Psychotherapists, Philosophers And Philosophically-interested Human Scientists Who Value Qualitative Approaches To Meaning. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 7 List of Illustrations......Page 9 Key to abbreviations......Page 11 Preface......Page 15 PART I The problem of the naturalistic attitude......Page 19 1 Introduction......Page 21 2 Setting the scene......Page 29 3 Towards a formal hermeneutics for psychological understanding......Page 42 PART II On the received wisdom of psychodynamics......Page 61 4 Freud’s understanding of transference......Page 63 5 Freud’s understanding of intersubjectivity......Page 83 PART III The challenge of Husserl......Page 101 6 An experiential introduction to phenomenology......Page 103 7 Some basic points of reference......Page 113 8 Understanding phenomenology......Page 134 9 The phenomena of Cartesian Meditations......Page 147 10 The moments of the meaningful whole......Page 165 PART IV A Husserlian critique of Freud......Page 187 11 Introducing the consequences for interpretation and practice......Page 189 12 Criticisms of Freud......Page 206 13 A new interpretation ofintersubjectivity......Page 228 PART V Developing a hermeneutic pure psychology......Page 253 14 Heidegger on hermeneutics......Page 255 15 Intentionality, temporality, context......Page 279 16 Towards a hermeneutic phenomenology......Page 300 17 Making phenomenology work......Page 326 18 Conclusions for the theory and practice of psychotherapy......Page 344 Bibliography......Page 351