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<p>The article presents the concept of Existential Grounding as a&#xa0;body-based extension of existential analysis and, with Personal Existential Analysis with the Body (PEAK), develops for the first time a&#xa0;structured process framework for body-related existential-analytical work in psychotherapeutic dialogue.</p><p>The starting point is the assumption that existential processes of meaning and decision-making are pre-reflectively anchored in the bodily self and manifest as implicit knowledge of the ‘embodied self.’ This knowledge is expressed in bodily resonances, postures, movement impulses, and atmospheric perceptions, and can be systematically accessed in the therapeutic process.</p><p>PEAK describes a&#xa0;phenomenologically open process that integrates bodily awareness, dialogical exploration, and personal positioning. In five process phases, the implicit bodily knowledge is transformed into existential orientation.</p><p>Using clinical case vignettes, it is shown how existential themes become experientially tangible in the body in terms of the four basic motivations and how they can be worked on in the therapeutic process. In this approach, meaning does not primarily appear as a&#xa0;cognitive construction, but as an experientially tangible bodily coherence.</p>

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Existenzielles Grounding: Die Personale Existenzanalyse mit dem Körper (PEAK)

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    2026年4月16日

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  • Markus Angermayr

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The article presents the concept of Existential Grounding as a body-based extension of existential analysis and, with Personal Existential Analysis with the Body (PEAK), develops for the first time a structured process framework for body-related existential-analytical work in psychotherapeutic dialogue.

The starting point is the assumption that existential processes of meaning and decision-making are pre-reflectively anchored in the bodily self and manifest as implicit knowledge of the ‘embodied self.’ This knowledge is expressed in bodily resonances, postures, movement impulses, and atmospheric perceptions, and can be systematically accessed in the therapeutic process.

PEAK describes a phenomenologically open process that integrates bodily awareness, dialogical exploration, and personal positioning. In five process phases, the implicit bodily knowledge is transformed into existential orientation.

Using clinical case vignettes, it is shown how existential themes become experientially tangible in the body in terms of the four basic motivations and how they can be worked on in the therapeutic process. In this approach, meaning does not primarily appear as a cognitive construction, but as an experientially tangible bodily coherence.