Understanding Experience

Understanding Experience: Psychotherapy, Philosophy and Postmodernism is a collection of innovative interdisciplinary essays that explore the human capacity for experience. The authors address the postmodern debate in contemporary psychotherapy and psychoanalysis through clinical case discussion and theoretical exegesis. The theories of Buber, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre are considered alongside the clinical work of Binswanger, Boss, Fromm, Laing and Lacan. By combining clinical data from psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with insights from European philosophy, this book seeks to bridge the paradigmatic divide between the natural sciences and the human sciences. It will be of great interest to academics and clinicians of psychotherapy and psychoanalysts, and to psychologists and social workers.

"For anyone wishing to know why the concept of "experience" is still a crucial one for all sciences of the mind, Frie's volume will be indispensable."-Malcolm Bowie, Master, Christ's College, Cambridge "Roger Frie has produced an immensely stimulating and important work for the contemporary clinician...I recommend this book highly."-Darlene Bregman Ehrenberg, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology

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