The Advantages Of Group Therapy In Treatment Of 'Despair' ("... A Sickness Of The Spirit, Of The Self...")
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https://doi.org/10.65828/th143g85Abstract
It is my intention to argue in this paper that group therapy can be viewed as a deep-going psychotherapeutic procedure that can offer much more than the widely acknowledged forms of individual therapy. This will be done through the exploration and, whenever appropriate, contrasting of the philosophies of two great thinkers, Kierkegaard, an existential philosopher, and Foulkes, a pioneer of group analysis. Both sought ways in which the individual could free himself from the rigid structure of his dysfunctional behaviour and develop his individuality, so that he could live in harmony with himself and others.
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