As a relatively new psychotherapist, thank you so much for these videos. I’ve struggled to find an authentic modality and I’m so eager to embrace the existential process.
I studied a fantastic phenomenological research paper by Mick Cooper on my masters which researched the helpful and unhelpful aspects of therapy with women in recovery from substance abuse. It was found that women had specific barriers to receiving the help they needed, including experiences of shame, stigma and discrimination and the difficulties when putting their experiences into words. I liked the research because it was in voices of the women, in the form of a dialogue and included their quotes. So much richer and meaningful than quantitative statistics. Thank you, I do love the phenomenological approach.
Emmy, your videos are so insightful. I stumbled upon them as i looked up existential anxiety which is what i am going through. I became aware that this happens to me after a period of stress and change. The thoughts come out of the blue. I keep having thougts about the reality of this reality. How do i know this reality i am living in is real? I could be living this life through a different body or i could be in a dream. Then i realised this thought was probably the result of me feeling that i have no control and freedom over my life. I felt trapped and caught up in the meaninglessness of life and then i started questioning everything. Then.....i thought: who is stopping me from doing what i want? Nobody. I am free (or at least thats what it looks like). Anyway, I looked you up and saw the work you do and how good you really are in what you do. You give me and others hope. Keep teaching. Keep enlightening. We need more people like you.
Dear Emmy, I have learned so much from you. I am an Albanian who live in USA, but I have lived through horrible communist dictatorship, my family persecuted, which means living in the brink of existence. I have had so many questions about existence and existentialism and your videos are so interesting teaching me concepts and wisdom. I always felt that being raised and educated in a extremely isolated country my peers and I need to know about existential psychotherapy. I have been struck by your interpretation of Plato’s Cave! It is epic, because it exactly describes the life in the communist Albania! I share your videos with my friends, because we have come out of the same “boat”. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your contribution to humanity!
Thanks for those beautiful comments. Your experiences have exposed you to a wide range of human cultures and ways of oppressing others. What a rich vein of life to draw on. But yes, that makes it super important to have a clear framework of reference and a philosophy that can help you rise above human error and negativity. I shall bear you and your friends in mind and wish you clarity and illumination.
Exciting ideas, especially about time and the notion that we are a kind of axis or a verb, I'm feeling for the right word, nexus maybe(?) One to save and watch again for my training, thank you.
I loved this! Just what I needed now. Thank you. Busy with an assignment for my honours degree. This clarified everything I was unsure of. Blessings from South Africa 🇿🇦💛
I studied with a great French phenomenologist, Michel Henry, in the seventies and spent fifty years applying the ideas to psychotherapy clinically, teaching masters and doctoral students and writing about it.
Read a lot of one of Husserls works, and just beginning to work out how to do it’the how’. Very helpful. And philosophically putting things /situations in question to gain clarity.
Ok tell me if I am getting this right (happy to get a reply from anyone). Very basically, in psychotherapy, phenomenology means not taking anything for granted about the person and their world view, direction and purpose, and working with them bit by bit to build up a picture of it that both people involved can understand and wonder at.... Is that right?
therabbithat That’s the starting point. Phenomenology is also a method with which we can systematically consider what is happening in the room, in the client’s world and in the therapist’s experience too.
Thanks, Unfortunately, I think if we are working in an ordinary psychiatry routine, we can create this perspective only with the client as much as the fingers of both hands during our working life.
As a relatively new psychotherapist, thank you so much for these videos. I’ve struggled to find an authentic modality and I’m so eager to embrace the existential process.
I studied a fantastic phenomenological research paper by Mick Cooper on my masters which researched the helpful and unhelpful aspects of therapy with women in recovery from substance abuse. It was found that women had specific barriers to receiving the help they needed, including experiences of shame, stigma and discrimination and the difficulties when putting their experiences into words. I liked the research because it was in voices of the women, in the form of a dialogue and included their quotes. So much richer and meaningful than quantitative statistics. Thank you, I do love the phenomenological approach.
I learn a lot from you Emmy. thank you very much for taking the time to share such important knowledge.
You are very welcome. Knowledge is nothing until it is shared.
Emmy, your videos are so insightful. I stumbled upon them as i looked up existential anxiety which is what i am going through. I became aware that this happens to me after a period of stress and change. The thoughts come out of the blue. I keep having thougts about the reality of this reality. How do i know this reality i am living in is real? I could be living this life through a different body or i could be in a dream. Then i realised this thought was probably the result of me feeling that i have no control and freedom over my life. I felt trapped and caught up in the meaninglessness of life and then i started questioning everything. Then.....i thought: who is stopping me from doing what i want? Nobody. I am free (or at least thats what it looks like).
Anyway, I looked you up and saw the work you do and how good you really are in what you do. You give me and others hope. Keep teaching. Keep enlightening. We need more people like you.
whoami You too! We need more people like you too.
Emmy van Deurzen it means so much coming from someone i admire. Thank you!
I could listen to you all day, you animate the knowledge and provide an accessible vehicle/portal. Thank you
Thank you for that helpful and kind feedback.
Dear Emmy, I have learned so much from you. I am an Albanian who live in USA, but I have lived through horrible communist dictatorship, my family persecuted, which means living in the brink of existence. I have had so many questions about existence and existentialism and your videos are so interesting teaching me concepts and wisdom. I always felt that being raised and educated in a extremely isolated country my peers and I need to know about existential psychotherapy. I have been struck by your interpretation of Plato’s Cave! It is epic, because it exactly describes the life in the communist Albania! I share your videos with my friends, because we have come out of the same “boat”. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your contribution to humanity!
Thanks for those beautiful comments. Your experiences have exposed you to a wide range of human cultures and ways of oppressing others. What a rich vein of life to draw on. But yes, that makes it super important to have a clear framework of reference and a philosophy that can help you rise above human error and negativity. I shall bear you and your friends in mind and wish you clarity and illumination.
Thank you for the depth of your thought! I will cherish it and continue to listen to your lectures! 🙏🙏🙏
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Thank you for this video. I conducted my final research project with the Open University using the phenomenological approach - it was fascinating ^_^
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Exciting ideas, especially about time and the notion that we are a kind of axis or a verb, I'm feeling for the right word, nexus maybe(?) One to save and watch again for my training, thank you.
Between the moment I started to thank you and the moment I finished the sentence, you have changed, and yet you are still here.
Yes, indeed.
I loved this! Just what I needed now. Thank you. Busy with an assignment for my honours degree. This clarified everything I was unsure of. Blessings from South Africa 🇿🇦💛
Glad to be of assistance!
This is a good teacher.
Beat description, explanation of phenomenology yet. How did you get so-o clear an understanding? Thanks,! -JB
I studied with a great French phenomenologist, Michel Henry, in the seventies and spent fifty years applying the ideas to psychotherapy clinically, teaching masters and doctoral students and writing about it.
Read a lot of one of Husserls works, and just beginning to work out how to do it’the how’. Very helpful. And philosophically putting things /situations in question to gain clarity.
Excellent.
Thank you very much! This was very useful to me as a psychology student.
Thank you for this video, its my fourth one and i connected with them in time. With love from Sunny South Africa 🌍
Welcome to my channel!
Ok tell me if I am getting this right (happy to get a reply from anyone). Very basically, in psychotherapy, phenomenology means not taking anything for granted about the person and their world view, direction and purpose, and working with them bit by bit to build up a picture of it that both people involved can understand and wonder at.... Is that right?
therabbithat That’s the starting point. Phenomenology is also a method with which we can systematically consider what is happening in the room, in the client’s world and in the therapist’s experience too.
Sounds like being able to understand our own and others perspective.
Yes, and also to check the facts and inspect everything from many angles, before coming to conclusions.
@@EmmyvanDeurzen sounds like CBT - challenging of unhelpful thinking patterns e.g. jumping to conclusions.
Thanks,
Unfortunately, I think if we are working
in an ordinary psychiatry routine, we can create this perspective only with the client as much as the fingers of both hands during our working life.
Lütfullah Beşiroğlu unfortunately that is true.
I can recommend a barber in London.
this comment, with that username, says far more about you than it does about emmy. just think about that.
I think you are in the wrong video, happens sometimes , ; ))