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existential therapy

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existential therapy,
a kind of psychotherapy that emphasizes the development of a sense of self-direction through choice, awareness, and acceptance of individual responsibility.


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Teetering on the boundaries between philosophy and psychotherapy, existential therapy involves helping clients find meaning in their lives and emphasizes that the driving force in life is an innate spiritual desire to find this meaning.
00 Hardcover RC480 Sixteen of the 19 chapters in this volume outline different types of therapy, from the Freudian approach to existential therapy and transactional analysis.
It was while researching that 1999 film - a pre-``Sopranos'' comedy about a Mafia don who seeks psychiatric help - that Ramis became interested in existential therapy.
 
 
 
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