What’s So Existential About Existential Therapy?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.65828/vbjj1p90Keywords:
Relatedness, responsibility, vertical dualism, horizontalized polaritiesAbstract
In looking back to the SEA’s origins and imagining forward into our future, this transcript of a keynote talk explores two key concerns – relatedness and responsibility – in an attempts to illuminate just what might be existential about existential therapy and why it might just be worth all our efforts to ensure its continuing existence.
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