Openness To Change And The Public Place Of Existential Therapy In 2048

Authors

  • Ryan Kemp Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.65828/x1drt295

Keywords:

Existential therapy, openness, interoception, self, emotion

Abstract

Therapy has changed substantially in the past one hundred years and there have been significant innovations in the past twenty years. It is argued that openness is major value of phenomenology, and for existential therapy to survive and remain relevant outside private work it must embrace innovations in the broader therapy field. Three such possible avenues are briefly discussed.

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2019-01-01

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Openness To Change And The Public Place Of Existential Therapy In 2048. (2019). Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, 30(1), 37-44. https://doi.org/10.65828/x1drt295
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