Medical Dictionary
existential psychotherapy
- a type of therapy, based on existential philosophy, emphasizing confrontation, primarily spontaneous interaction, and feeling experiences rather than rational thinking, with less attention given to patient's resistance; the therapist is involved on the same level and to the same degree as the patient.
Syn: existential psychiatry
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