Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy

1 class - An outline of the tradition as developed by Dr Kirk J. Schneider and colleagues, drawing on the Existential-Humanistic tradition of Schneider, Rollo May and James Bugental. The HEP tradition is an existential-integrative model in that all the diverse traditions incorporated into HEP are done so within an existential framework, the overall experiential holistic theme being integrative in a intrapsychic sense (i.e. the focus of the work is integration of the differentiated psychic structure of the individual) and an interpersonal sense (i.e. the focus of the work is to promote cooperative, differentiated, empathic contact between individuals), as well as integrative in its mode of incorporating thematic elements of these diverse traditions, so that they amplify and refine the HEP theme of holistic, transpersonal existentialism i.e. what is my experience, what is its meaning for me, and how is it to be enacted in the service of life? Jim McNamara