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  title info:
    title: Existential Elucidation
    sub title: Jaspers, Boundary Situations, and Spiritual Care
  name:
    name part: Gutschmidt, Rico
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Frick, Eckhard
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Technische Universität München
    role:
      role term: funder.
  name:
    name part: Walter de Gruyter & Co
  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    place:
      place term: DE
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (IX, 253 pages).
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Words of welcome to the book "Existential Elucidation" -- Preface / Eckhard Frick, Rico Gutschmidt -- Keyword: Boundary / Rico Gutschmidt -- The philosophy of boundary situations1011 -- Systematics and unity of Jaspers' boundary situations / Giovanni Pietro Basile -- Karl Jaspers' conception of boundary situations and its implications for spiritual care / Kurt Salamun -- Boundary situations / Thomas Fuchs -- Doubts -- curiosity -- benefit / Alice Holzhey-Kunz -- Existential boundaries. Jaspers on the interminable struggle with our finitude / Rico Gutschmidt -- Perspectives on application9293 -- Preferring existential darkness to elucidation? / Eckhard Frick -- Working with death, struggle and guilt / Emmy van Deurzen -- Jaspers and Bion / Hilmar Schmiedl-Neuburg -- From Karl Jaspers to Irvin D. Yalom and Emmy van Deurzen: / Alexander Schnorbusch -- Interdisciplinary research172173 -- Existential communication in post-secular societies among psychologists and chaplains / Heidi Frølund Pedersen, Aida Hougaard Andersen, Laurids Munklinde, Ricko Damberg Nissen, Karsten Flemming Thomsen -- Recollected experiences of death as boundary situations / Godehard Brüntrup -- Echoes of Jaspers' concept of 'boundary situation' in two novels / Ni An -- Arts informed Research based on spiritual care research interviews. A workshop report / Ruth Mächler, Ralf T. Vogel, Eckhard Frick, Heike Rastetter, Christoph Schlemmer, Rico Gutschmidt
  target audience: specialized
  note: Technische Universität München, Rico Gutschmidt, Eckhard Frick.
  note: Eckhard Frick and Rico Gutschmidt, Technische Universität München.
  note: In English.
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY / General
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Counseling & Recovery
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION / Psychology of Religion
  subject:
    topic: Jaspers
  subject:
    topic: Spiritual Care
  subject:
    topic: Boundary Situation
  subject:
    topic: Seelsorge
  subject:
    topic: Grenzsituationen
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in Spiritual Care , 14
  identifier: 9783111715377
  identifier: 311171537X
  identifier: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: DEGRU
    record creation date: 251216
    record change date: 20260212201014.5
    record identifier: in00005687548
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng