What is it Like to Teach Existential Therapy? An international qualitative research study
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https://doi.org/10.65828/wm2wvj10Keywords:
Teaching existentially, existential therapy, international, training, education, researchAbstract
This research study continues a line of enquiry developed in four previous papers published in this journal. The first three of these explored connections between existentialism, education and psychotherapy teaching, and identified a distinction between teaching about existentialism, and teaching existentially. The fourth paper presented a phenomenological research study in which the primary research question was 'What is it like to teach existential therapy in the UK?'. The current paper extends the scope of this study, posing the question 'What is it like to teach existential therapy internationally?'.
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