A Process Model

Eugene Gendlin

ISBN 10: 0810136198 / ISBN 13: 9780810136199

Published by Univ Of Chicago Behalf Northwestern Univ Pres Nov 2017, 2017

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Neuware - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Process Model
• Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Behalf Northwestern Univ Pres Nov 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810136198
• ISBN 13: 9780810136199
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 228W x 154H x 22D millimeters 228 millimeters width by 154 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 404 grams

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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.

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.