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Psychotherapy: Adaptation or Walking Together? (A Roadside Conversation)
Psychotherapy: Adaptation or Walking Together? (A Roadside Conversation)

Author(s): Yana Larionova, Nina Bychkova
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Keywords: anthropology; personal identity; existentialism; existential psychotherapy; the structure of conscientiousness; distinction as ability; phenomenology; education development; educating medium

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns psychotherapeutic work in the perspective of existential approach. Two trends are discerned in modern psychotherapy regardless of the known division into different schools – the adaptation therapy, and the one viewing a person in the context of his Personal being in the world. Therapy here is understood as the Way of mutual personal growth of both the therapist and the client. Distinction is singled out as one of the central points in forming the meanings, essential for both the normal development of a child and in psychotherapy, and remaining significant for spiritual growth in adults.

  • Issue Year: 18/2010
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 64-69
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English