PSYCHOTHERAPY, TO FOCUS ON THE EXPERIENCES: FEATURES PSYCHOTHERAPY PRACTICE
Abstract. This paper discusses some of the most important aspects of the practice of psychotherapy in the dialog – phenomenological psychotherapy. In particular, the author analyzes the principles of therapeutic interventions within therapy, focused on the experience. Particular attention is given in the article the importance of the psychological presence of the therapist, it is postulated primacy over the content of the therapeutic process. We consider the practical application of the methodological principle of decentralization of power.
Keywords: interactive – phenomenological psychotherapy, psychological presence, the principle of decentralization of power, therapeutic intervention, the phenomenological field.
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». The Author the dialogue-phenomenological psychotherapy. 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.
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