Tales from the Couch: Existential-Phenomenological Reflections in Psychopathology and Psychotherapy
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Brief overview of Existential-Phenomenology in Psychopathology and Psychotherapy as reflected in patients real-life stories. A critical assessment of problematic trends in modern Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology. A challenge to the medicalization of human behavior, the objectification of the person, and the loss of self-hood. An exposition for the need to place the human being at the center of our clinical enterprise, recognizing his or her essential freedom, and the ability to choose life's path. A practical narrative of everyday problems, fears, and concerns brought to the Therapist's couch and a description of the efforts to create new meanings and new solutions to their dilemmas.
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