Existential Psychotherapy – an overview
Journal Title: INDIAN JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Existential psychotherapy is one of the most insightful and meaningful forms of psychotherapy available in clinical practice. It was presented to us by the psychotherapist Victor Frankl based on his experiences in the concentration camps during the world war. The present review overviews the basic premise on which existential psychotherapy is based, the key tenet involved and provides the busy practitioner a bird’s eye view of the principles and practice of this form of psychotherapy. Some limitations of the existential form of therapy and cases where it may be beneficial are discussed.
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Avinash De Sousa
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