An Exploration of Some Connections Between Existentialism, Education and Psychotherapy Teaching
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https://doi.org/10.65828/9jcq7m92Keywords:
Existentialism, banking method, Friere, Socratic method, pedagogy, process, praxis, psychotherapyAbstract
There are three parts to this paper. The first reviews how some existential philosophers have talked about education. The second considers how this has been used by subsequent writers. And the third links all this to the education of psychotherapists.
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