Existential Psychotherapy: The Genetic-Phenomenological Approach

Abstract

This chapter aims to explain how the genetic-phenomenological approach to existential psychotherapyExistential psychotherapyworks and how it is applied in clinical practice. So one of its main aims is to present the relationalRelationalstances and the therapeutic Therapeutic techniquestechniquesTechniquesused in this approach. The chapter sets out to (a) summarize the theoretical underpinnings of existential psychotherapy and the principles supported by scientific evidence and how both can be intertwined; (b) define the goalsGoalsand aims of existential psychotherapy; (c) outline the relationalRelationalstances and the therapeutic techniques in this approach; (d) present research that supports interventions based on the genetic-phenomenologicalGenetic-phenomenologicalapproach; (e) explain the process of case conceptualizationCase conceptualizationand how to understand the process of change from an existential perspective.