What Does It Mean to ‘Teach Existentially’, and How Can We Teach Existentialism Existentially
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https://doi.org/10.65828/1xrn6f56Keywords:
Psychotherapy teaching, teaching existentially, transformative learningAbstract
This paper documents an online discussion conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the course of this, the authors note that psychotherapy teaching is extremely under-documented, under-researched and under-evaluated, and they formulate some preliminary ideas about how existential therapy can be taught in a way that is congruent with the ethos of existential philosophy with the aim of encouraging further work on this important area.
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