Just don’t do something, stand there! Immersion into experience is not a convenient stop on the way to real psychotherapy

Just don’t do something, stand there! Immersion into experience is not a convenient stop on the way to real psychotherapy

2008-06-01 00:00:00 12m
A manner of existential psychotherapy dares the self to leave itself behind and enter therapy in an attitude of poverty, a state of disturbance which can be so different to a place of charged-up consciousness of self.  The paper will argue the merits of a number of psychotherapeutic strategies that work against an idea/ideal of being, as if there was a single voice of being, and which, in contrast, encourage the multifaceted experience of being.

 

Conference: Demo
Areas of Interest / Categories: Psychotherapy, Self
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