On Experience and Psychotherapy A Dialogue with Michel de Montaigne
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https://doi.org/10.65828/af6pkm02Abstract
This paper concerns itself with the relevance of Montaigne's writings for the practice of contemporary psychotherapy. Montaigne demands a personal investment from his readers beyond the scope of analytic philosophy as it is often presented. For this reason, a brief exploration of the historical significance of Montaigne is followed by an account of my personal dialogue with his text On Experience. In adopting this philosophical and literary style, I have attempted to tease out some of the issues I consider relevant to my own psychotherapeutic practice and which, it is hoped, might also be relevant to others aligning their practice along existential-phenomenological principles.
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