Existential psychotherapy is a form of psychotherapy based on the existential philosophy of the 19th and 20th centuries and has been developed as a therapeutic school under Otto Rank.
According to existential psychotherapy, people are unhappy and live in an unauthentic manner due to the fact that they are permanently under the pressure of existential anguish. According to Yalom (1980), one… Read More
Winnicott was a British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst that brought a breath of fresh air to the psychoanalytical orientation through his theories concerning the true self, false self, transitional objects and play as a tool for development. A disciple of Melanie Kleine, Winnicott quickly finds his own voice and earns independence from his spiritual tutor, becoming a renowned psychoanalyst… Read More
Self psychology is a psychoanalytic orientation developed by the psychiatrist Heinz Kohout at the beginning of the ’60s that brings a breath of fresh air to the often inflexible and much too anchored in theories field of psychoanalysis.
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According to Kohut, people’s problems appear when essential needs that individuals have during childhood are not… Read More
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