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A Process Model (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) - Softcover

Gendlin, Eugene

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9780810136199: A Process Model (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
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ISBN 10: 0810136198 ISBN 13: 9780810136199
Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Eugene T. Gendlin (1926–2017) is increasingly recognized as one of the seminal thinkers of our era. Carrying forward the projects of American pragmatism and continental philosophy, Gendlin created an original form of philosophical psychology that brings new understandings of human experience and the life-world, including the “hard problem of consciousness.”
A Process Model, Gendlin’s magnum opus, offers no less than a new alternative to the dualism of mind and body. Beginning with living process, the body’s simultaneous interaction and identity with its environment, Gendlin systematically derives nonreductive concepts that offer novel and rigorous ways to think from within lived precision. In this way terms such as body, environment, time, space, behavior, language, culture, situation, and more can be understood with both great force and great subtlety.

Gendlin’s project is relevant to discussions not only in philosophy but in other fields in which life process is central—including biology, environmental management, environmental humanities, and ecopsychology. It provides a genuinely new philosophical approach to complex societal challenges and environmental issues.

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About the Author

EUGENE T. GENDLIN (1926–2017) received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago and taught there from 1964 to 1995. He was honored four times by the American Psychological Association for his development of Experiential Psychotherapy. He was awarded the 2007 Viktor Frankl prize by the city of Vienna and the Viktor Frankl Family Foundation. He is the author of a number of books, including Focusing, Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning, and Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy.

ROBERT A. PARKER is a psychologist and Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist at the Focusing Institute.

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Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0810136198
ISBN 13 
9780810136199
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
304
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