Sigmund Freud: The Morphing Damped Pain of Dying -- Interlude I: On Aging -- Alfred Adler: Sudden Death While Walking -- Interlude II: On Dying -- Wilhelm Reich: Destruction of a Heretic -- Interlude III: The Stages of Dying -- Jacob L. Moreno: "Playing God" or: Directing Until the Last Scene -- Interlude IV: Types of Death and Styles of Dying -- Fritz Perls: "You Will Not Tell Me What to Do." -- Interlude V: Grief and Humor -- C.G. Jung: Anticipation of the Coming Adventure -- Interlude VI: Finitude – Lifetime – Dying Time (Small Exercises) -- Karlfried Graf Dürckheim: Endured Pain During Conscious Transition -- Interlude VII: Images of Humanity and Therapy Goals in Psychotherapy -- Nossrat Peseschkian: Gliding Over in Sleep -- Epilogue: Live Your Dying.

This non-fiction book addresses the significant theme of life and death in a unique way: it focuses on the founders of psychotherapy schools and narrates their lifestyles, dying styles, and contributions. How did they live? What confusions and challenges did they face throughout their lives, what crises did they endure, and how did they overcome them? What conclusions did they draw from these experiences? And finally: how did they die? It becomes clear in an entertaining and readable manner that their attitude towards life and death influences the development of their respective psychotherapy methods. Written for interested laypeople, psychotherapists in practice and training, psychiatrists, and consultants. Content Overview Freud, Jung, Adler, Moreno, Perls, Reich, von Dürckheim, Peseschkian – their perspectives on life and death and their significance for their psychotherapy schools. About the Author Werner Gross, Dipl.-Psych., psychotherapist, supervisor, and coach, organizational and business consultant. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.