Clinical Psychology

T raditional psychotherapy traces its origins to a psychoanalytic point of view that regards both pathology and the inability to ...

example, a therapist observes that Nico is behaving nervously prior to a test, infers that Nico must be experiencing threat from ...

the phenomenal self. In a sense, then, self-esteem becomes the fountainhead of behavior. Problems in adjustment arise when the p ...

Core Features As Rogers (1959) put it, psychotherapy is the “releasing of an already existing capacity in a po- tentially compet ...

can, in the absence of threat, begin to grow as a person. Exhibiting these qualities with someone the therapist finds pleasing a ...

feeling and the accompanying acceptance are them- selves reassuring. Reassurance is also conveyed by the therapist’s tone of voi ...

A Case Illustration of Client-Centered Therapy The following case example illustrates some of the features of client-centered co ...

whether they stem from an earlier unhealthy home situation. The therapist accepts the feelings in a manner that transmits neithe ...

never be fully offset by their enthusiasm and “authenticity.” A contribution of major proportions was Rogers’emphasis on researc ...

psychotherapy. Horvath, Del Re, Fluckiger, and Symonds (2011) analyzed data from over 200 studies and reported that quality of t ...

is possible that any client changes observed within the therapy room represent adjustments to the demands of the situation rathe ...

Existential Therapy Existential psychologyrejects the mechanistic views of the Freudians and instead sees people as engaged in a ...

A crucial facet of personality is decision mak- ing, which involves the world of both facts and possibilities. Thus, personality ...

also a capacity to accept those things in life that are unchangeable or inevitable. Techniques. Existential therapy does not emp ...

show him what a good trembler I am—I’ll really show him how nicely I can tremble”(p. 226). This procedure resembles those of imp ...

The Now. For Perls, reality is now, behavior is now, and experience is now. To seek answers in the past is to deal with what no ...

general is not an authentic person. Gestalt therapy forces one to experience and become aware of these shams. But this awareness ...

studies that have appeared more recently, none sug- gests that Gestalt therapy is more effective than other forms of treatment ( ...

effectiveness of client-centered, Gestalt, EFT and other humanistic-existential therapies. This is somewhat ironic in light of C ...

their therapies. The phenomenological-humanistic- existential axis has brought them in touch once more with the essential data o ...