Existential Elucidation
-
Edited by:
Rico Gutschmidt
-
Funded by:
Technische Universität München
About this book
Spiritual Care aims at supporting the spiritual needs of patients. From a secular view, Spiritual Care can be interpreted with the help of central notions of Karl Jaspers, such as “boundary situation” and “existential elucidation”.
Jaspers’ concept of the “boundary situation” refers to the fundamental boundaries of action and life, such as struggle, guilt, suffering and death. Human life always remains within these boundaries, but this is experienced in a special way in particular situations. According to Jaspers, such situations are experienced as boundary situations if this experience leads to “existential elucidation”, namely to an attitude that comprehends and acknowledges life’s fundamental boundaries.
Boundary situations can occur in the context of the health-care sector. Patients, for example, who have to endure severe physical or emotional suffering or are confronted with their own death due to a terminal illness can experience their situation as a boundary situation in the sense of Jaspers.
The contributions of this volume discuss the notion of boundary situation from philosophical, literary, and psychological perspectives and explore the question of how to support patients in boundary situations against this background.
Author / Editor information
Eckhard Frick and Rico Gutschmidt, Technische Universität München.
Topics
|
Publicly Available Download PDF |
I |
|
Open Access Download PDF |
V |
|
Open Access Download PDF |
7 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
|
|
Eckhard Frick and Rico Gutschmidt Open Access Download PDF |
1 |
|
Rico Gutschmidt Open Access Download PDF |
5 |
|
Part A: The philosophy of boundary situations
|
|
|
Giovanni Pietro Basile Open Access Download PDF |
11 |
|
Kurt Salamun Open Access Download PDF |
35 |
|
Karl Jaspers’ contribution to spiritual care Thomas Fuchs Open Access Download PDF |
49 |
|
Stages of reading Jaspers Alice Holzhey-Kunz Open Access Download PDF |
61 |
|
Rico Gutschmidt Open Access Download PDF |
81 |
|
Part B: Perspectives on application
|
|
|
About defences elicited by boundary situations Eckhard Frick Open Access Download PDF |
93 |
|
Emmy van Deurzen Open Access Download PDF |
115 |
|
Existential elucidation and ontological transformation Hilmar Schmiedl-Neuburg Open Access Download PDF |
137 |
|
Boundary situations and ultimate concerns in existential therapy Alexander Schnorbusch Open Access Download PDF |
157 |
|
Part C: Interdisciplinary research
|
|
|
Heidi Frølund Pedersen, Aida Hougaard Andersen, Laurids Munklinde, Ricko Damberg Nissen and Karsten Flemming Thomsen Open Access Download PDF |
173 |
|
Godehard Brüntrup Open Access Download PDF |
193 |
|
Ni An Open Access Download PDF |
213 |
|
Ruth Mächler, Ralf T. Vogel, Eckhard Frick, Heike Rastetter, Christoph Schlemmer and Rico Gutschmidt Open Access Download PDF |
229 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
-
Manufacturer information:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Genthiner Straße 13
10785 Berlin
productsafety@degruyterbrill.com
