Abstract This essay explores the implications of post-modern ideas for the psychotherapeutic practise. Opposed to modernism, post-modernism is about what we are subject to; Foucault suggests power, Lacan proposes language, Derrida mentions meaning and Levinas chooses ethics. A post-modern approach to psychotherapy could enable the therapist to be aware of his position of power and…

Abstract This essay explores person-centred therapy, particularly focusing on its founder, Carl Rogers. His theory of constructive personality change, as a result of the psychotherapeutic process is thoroughly examined. Rogers argued that it is about the therapist’s qualities, his level of genuineness, warmness, empathy, as well as his capacity for unconditional acceptance of his…

Abstract Having repressed the old traumas the person’s life, for Freud, is determined by those early experiences, as he has the tendency to repeat them in a form of self-fulfilling prophecy. Psychoanalysis is then the method of bringing this conflict up to the patient’s consciousness, which will result to the disappearance of the symptoms and…

Abstract The ideas of existential philosophers have various implications for psychotherapeutic practice. Heidegger’s notion of being in the world with others, Husserl’s method of phenomenology and his idea of intentionality and Merleau-Ponty’s points on perception compose a new role for the clinical practitioner. The psychotherapist is under no illusions of “scientific”, objective and completely accurate…