Category: Existential Psychotherapy

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Creativity, Springtime, and a Multiplicity of Approaches for Getting “Unstuck”

May 2nd, 2011  |  

I love springtime because of its association with new life, which immediately brings to mind thoughts about creativity. For those with creative blocks, however - whether artists or just ordinary folks like most of us, there are times when the “stuckness” of creative inability colors the world gray; we tell ourselves we’re not special or good enough; that no one is interested in our creative efforts; our creations look, feel and sound ordinary, as though anyone could have made them. Whether we’re simply uninspired to create, having a bout of the “blahs”, or feeling depressed, anxious,... Read More

 

Being & Human Encounter in Good Therapy

April 1st, 2011  |  

May (1983) wrote that the most fundamental aspect of therapy is being and that, therefore, the value of the human encounter in therapy far outweighs complex understandings about a person’s psychological makeup or the technical skill of a guru. He did not mean to diminish the value of insight, but wrote, “The data…learned about the patient may have been accurate and well worth learning. But the point, rather, is that the grasping of the other person occurs on a different level from our knowledge of specific things about him… “Obviously a knowledge of the drives and mechanisms which... Read More

 
 
 

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