Jerrold L. Shapiro 
Pragmatic Existential Counseling and Psychotherapy [EPUB ebook] 
Intimacy, Intuition, and the Search for Meaning

Chapter 1: Context: The Author′s Life as an Existential Experiment
The Personal: How I became an Existential Therapist
Post-Grad Existential Experiences: Renewed Contact with Dr. Frankl
Finding Meaning in a Chance Meeting in Guam
Another Strange Site for Insight
True Existential Moments
The More Things Change…
The Professional Context
The Reach of Existential Approaches to Counseling and Psychotherapy
An Existential Orientation
Our Journey
Chapter 2: How Philosophy Becomes Therapy
Existential Philosophy
Philosophy Becomes Therapy
Divergent Existential Therapies
European Schools
European and American Existentialism
The Pragmatic Existential Orientation of this Book
Chapter 3: Essential Concepts/themes in Existential Theory and Therapy
Roots
Related Influences
A Brief Introduction to a Pragmatic Existential Therapy
Chapter 4: Existential Counseling and Psychotherapy: Strategies, Qualities, and Methods
Anxiety: The Engine of Change
Ahistorical Focus
Turning Report into Reality
Asocial Interventions
Working from Within
The Benefits of a Positive Psychology
Maximizing Therapeutic Effects
Existential Methods
Chapter 5: The Centrality of Resistance in Counseling and Therapy
A Brief History of Resistance and Healing
Resistance Across Theories
Resistance Between and Resistance Within
A Pragmatic Model of Dealing with Resistance in (Existential) Counseling and Therapy
Resistance Styles
The Cognitive External Style
The Affective External Style
The Cognitive Internal Style
The Affective Internal Style
The Cognitive Away Style
The Affective Away Style
Joining Must be Authentic
It Seems Counter-Intuitive. Why Does this Work?
Think France in the Early 1940′s: Join the Resistance
Chapter 6: Using All the Data: How Do Therapists Know What They Know?
The Nature of Human Communication
Meta-Communication
Communication and the State of the Receiver
The Therapy Context and Communication
Therapists′ Processing Systems: The Use of Self
Linear Sources (Empirical/Observable Data)
Non-Linear (Intuitive) Sources of Data
The Value and Dangers of Self-Data
The Aware Therapist
Chapter 7: The Four Epigenetic Phases of Psychotherapy
Intra-Session Arc
The Trajectory of Therapy
A Four Phase Developmental Sequence
Chapter 8: Show Me the Evidence! What is the Proof that Existential Therapy Works?
Some Realities for Clinicians
Preaching to the Choir: The ‘Hegemony’ of CBT
‘Include Me Out’
A Lack of Fit between Efficacy Studies and Existential-Humanistic Therapy
Psychotherapy: Art, Science or Hybrid
What is the Evidence for Existential Approaches?
A Curmudgeon′s Perspective on Outcome Research
The Nose in Front of My Face
Implications
Chapter 9: Beyond the I-thou Dyad: Group, Couple, and Family Therapy
Unique Advantages of Multi-person Therapy
Unique Therapeutic Interventions
Characteristic Methods
Interactional Intimacy
When Groups are of Strangers
Effectiveness of Existential Multi-person Therapy
Why Existential Couple, Family and Group Therapy
Chapter 10: Gender and Culture in Existential Therapy
Ethnicity, Culture, and Gender Differences
Counseling the Culturally Diverse
Religion as Culture
Socio-economic Status
When Cultures Clash
Gender and Sexual Orientation
Emic Redux
Is Existential Counseling and Psychotherapy Multi-Cultural?
Human Universals Across Cultures
Ideographic and Nomothetic
Chapter 11: Life Transitions and Existential Psychotherapy
Developmental Stages
The Baby Boomer Generation: Finding Meaning, Facing Fears
Boomers in Therapy
Transition Issues
Transitions
Chapter 12: An Existential Case Study
Dana

Jerrold Lee Shapiro is Professor and former Chairman in the Department of Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara University, where he is Director of the Center for Professional Development. He is also Managing Partner of Family Business Solutions. From 1970 to 1982, he taught at the University of Hawaii, where he was awarded the Regents Medal for outstanding teaching among senior faculty.  A Professor of Counseling Psychology at Santa Clara University since 1982, in 2006, he received the Award for Sustained Excellence in Scholarship – The highest honor for Scholarship awarded by Santa Clara University. He also held a visiting professorship at UC Santa Cruz and was president of Psy Journ Corporation, developers of self-help computer-assisted counseling software.He has authored and edited nine books including three on fatherhood: The Measure of a Man: Becoming the Father you wish your Father Had Been (currently available in four languages), ; Becoming a Father: Social, Develop-mental, and Clinical Perspectives (co-edited with Drs.Michael Jay Diamond and Marty Greenberg and winner of a Book of the Year award from the American Journal of Nursing); and When Men Are Pregnant (currently available in five languages). Other books include Brief Group Treatment: A Practical Guide for Counselors and Therapists; and Trance on Trial, (with Alan Scheflin) which won the 1991 Manfred S. Guttmacher Award for Literary Excellence in Law and Psychiatry. Dr. Shapiro has authored over 200 professional papers, presentations and symposia and a Poster: ‘A Father’s Declaration.” An experienced speaker, he has appeared on well over 100 radio and television programs including The Oprah Winfrey Show; the CBS Morning Show; ABC, CBS and NBC TV News,   NPR; PBS; CNN; People are Talking (San Francisco) Sonya Live and Special Reports Television. His work on fatherhood has been carried internationally in print media. Among the articles written by him or citing his research are pieces in TIME Magazine; The New York Times; Los Angeles Times; Wall Street journal; San Francisco Chronicle; San Jose Mercury News; Self Magazine; Parents Magazine; Bridal Guide, San Francisco Magazine and Psychology Today. Professor Shapiro speaks regularly to groups of parents on topics that focus on parenting and life transitions, including fathering, the transition to college for parents and their high schoolers, new methods of educating boys to enhance success and the intricacies of family business. A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Shapiro is has held licenses in California and Hawaii, a Diplomate from the American Board of Medical Psychotherapists, a Certified Clinical Consultantship with the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and a Certified Group Therapist from the American Group Psychotherapy Association. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions of Family Psychology, Independent Practice and Media Psychology).