Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Seeing Stance: Phenomenology

Chapter 1: What is Stance

Chapter 2: Stance Across the Lifespan

Part II: Foundations of Stance: Motivation and Affect

Chapter 3: Motivation, Constraint and Affect

Chapter 4: Obstructions in the Modes of Living

Chapter 5: When Affect Forms a Stance

Part III: Mapping Stance: Adaptation and Organization

Chapter 6: The Ten Dimensions of Stance

Chapter 7: Stance Sheet Examples from the Four Existential Modes of Living

Part IV: Stance in the World: Encountering Experience

Chapter 8: Reorganizing a Narrowed Stance

Chapter 9: Livable Stance in Existential Therapy

Chapter 10: Client Stance in the Therapy Room

Chapter 11: Therapist Stances

Chapter 12: The Person in the World

Part V: The Stance Method: Recontacting Experience

Chapter 13: Locating Experience: Pre-Stance and Collapsed Stance

Chapter 14: CYCLE: Addressing Repetition

Chapter 15: STILL: Restoring Contact

Chapter 16: STRIDE: Dignity and Renewal

Chapter 17: Comparing Stance Treatments

Part VI: A Livable Life

Chapter 18: Encountering Life

Glossary of Stance Terms

Index