Pogodin Igor "FREE CHOICE AS A VALUE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY"
Abstract. The present article is an attempt to attract attention of free choice for person. The psychotherapy is considered by the author as some space which is focused on the restoration of person’s ability to choose. The choice is considered as some elementary mental act which is indecomposable on elements and has no bases except itself. The separate attention is given to the value of right for responsibility, which restoration is important for the process of free choice. The curious analogies between the concept of field and the principle of Dao are represented.
Key words: dialogue-phenomenological psychotherapy, choice, field situation, contact, experience, Dao, right for responsibility, doubt, self-control of contact.
Pogodin Igor – PhD – philosophy doctor (psychological sciences), the associate professor, director of Institute for Gestalt (Belarus), the conducting trainer and a member of Professional Council of Moscow Gestalt Institute. The Gestalt-therapist (certificates: MGI, the European Certificate of Gestalt-therapist), supervisor (certificates: MGI, Ecole Parisienne de Gestalt (EPG)) and teacher of Gestalt-therapy, the expert in the field of crisis psychotherapy. Main Editor of «Vestnik of Gestalt-therapy». A full member of the European Association of Gestalt-therapy (EAGT), the International Federation of the organizations teaching the Gestalt, the Belarus Association for Psychotherapy. The scientific adviser of the department of crisis psychology of social – psychological center of the Belarus State Pedagogical University (BSPU).
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