A Discussion of Workplace Bullying: Its impact on the sense of self from an existential phenomenological perspective, and implications for existential clinical practice
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https://doi.org/10.65828/15tgyg69Keywords:
Workplace bullying, subjective-phenomenological experience, existential clinical practice, identity, existential changeAbstract
This paper focuses on enabling existential therapists to better understand the phenomenon of workplace bullying, explore its complex nature from an existential-phenomenological perspective, and its implications for existential clinical practice. It is deemed important for existential therapists to consider this as a phenomenon that can cause existential anxiety in a person's life and great change. Furthermore, this paper will explore the complexity of workplace bullying, with a focus on the existential-phenomenological paradigm, and the implications for existential clinical practice.
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