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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"existential psychotherapy"”.
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Bibliotherapy in existential psychotherapy: a hermeneutic phenomenological exploration
… reading is often used as an adjunct to various psychotherapy modalities. The utilisation of books in psychotherapeutic treatment for the benefit and promotion of psychological well-being is well-established. Aims: This study aims to explore the use of bibliotherapy by existential …
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Artistries of interior time : the subjective experience of time and art therapy, focussing on schizophrenia
… of psychoanalysis, analytical psychology and existential psychotherapy. While each school ultimately deals with a client's experience of time as a whole, each is shown to preference one temporal perspective: psychoanalysis the past, analytical psychology the "other time" of archetypal reality, …
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Is there a place for sexual difference in Ernesto Spinelli's existential phenomenological psychology? An Irigarayan response to the work of Ernesto Spinelli
… as he is a contemporary scholar-practitioner of existential phenomenological psychology who is particularly attuned to the constitution of inter-subjectivity in therapeutic praxis. I began with Spinelli's critique of contemporary psychotherapy as "an ally of dominant cultural assumptions" …
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Iranian clients' aberurizi (secret-self) in the consulting room: an existential perspective using narrative and structural existential analyses
This study aimed to explore the existential experiences of Iranian clients and psychotherapists, focusing on aberurizi within mental health. Drawing on aberurizi literature, it examined the psychological impact of stigma, shame, and the secret self in Iranian culture and their implications for …
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A philosophical and experimental study of an existential-phenomenological approach to art education strategies
… were to explore philosophical implications of existential-phenomenological thought for art education and to experimentally investigate, in the art classroom, an adaptation of basic participatory techniques of existential psychotherapy. The philosophical study considered two related areas: …
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From philosophy to practice: A hermeneutic analysis of existential-phenomenological psychotherapy
… process recall was employed to clarify how two existential-phenomenological psychotherapists apply the philosophies upon which their work is based. Two sessions of therapists and clients engaged in existential-phenomenological psychotherapy in a private practice setting were the focus of the …
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‘Undetermined exiles’: a phenomenological exploration of transition out of Army life
… for a soldier to leave the British Army? Can psychotherapy, and specifically existential psychotherapy, help in the transition process? These have become increasingly important questions since the Strategic Defence and Security Review (2010) set a government target of 7,000 British Army …
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A phenomenological inquiry into how transcendent experiences among existential therapists influence their practice
… Yet, the phenomenon is little studied in psychotherapy research, from the lived perspectives of therapists who have intimate encounters with such experiences. Addressing this lacuna, this phenomenological study investigates the research question, ‘How do transcendent experiences as …
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Being opened: a hermeneutic phenomenological enquiry into the existential psychotherapist’s lived experience of wonder
… as a phenomenon in a clinical context. Eight existential, phenomenologically orientated psychotherapists and counselling psychologists participated in the study. To generate sufficiently rich lived experience descriptions the methodological approach of Max van Manen’s (2014) Hermeneutic …
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The experience of existential experimentation from the service users’ perspective in primary care
… the theoretical literature would suggest that existential-phenomenological therapy, a core modality of counselling psychology, could be aptly positioned to address the challenging requirements of primary care. The recognition of existential-phenomenological therapy as part of primary care’s …
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The meaning and experience of receiving HIV post-test psychological counselling by African childbearing migrant women from a culturally appropriate counselling model in comparison to classical western models: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… are reported as reluctant in accessing available psychotherapy/counselling services (Malanda, Meadows & Catalan, 2001). Apart from the perception that such services are threatening, little is known about this reluctance. This is worrying, as Africans continue to be the most underrepresented HIV …
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Inauthenticity and self-deception in Heidegger's Being and Time in relation to psychotherapy
… issues of self-deception and inauthenticity in psychotherapy. After some preliminary remarks on the concepts of inauthenticity and self-deception the first part of the dissertation explores Heidegger's fundamental ontology as detailed in Being and rime. basein's temporal nature and its …
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A grounded theory study of existential psychotherapists’ experiences of working with clients with shopping addiction
… shopping addiction, particularly in the field of existential-phenomenological psychotherapy. The study reports on how participating therapists described their ways of working with clients with shopping addiction, why they worked in these ways, and the outcomes that were reportedly created. I used …
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Using trauma as a lens to explore the experience of mothering a very premature infant in the first year after hospital discharge
… as a mother. The emergent themes are inherently existential and are explored from an existential perspective.
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Bewitched, amputated or dead: an existential study of leadership stuckness
… of a theory of the process of stuckness and an existential definition of stuckness. It was found that the process of leadership stuckness involves three losses: the loss of self and capacity to self-reflect, the loss of relationships, and the loss of meaning. A significant proportion of this …
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How consulting a medium after bereavement influences the grieving process – an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… of the bereaved. It also sought to explore the existential dimensions experienced by the bereaved. Six bereaved participants in the UK who had experienced assisted ADCs took part in semi- structured interviews. The data was analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith et al., …