Psychotherapy’s philosophical foundation – a plea

Authors

  • Paolo Raile

Abstract

Summary: The psychotherapist is a philosophical physician – over the past 250 years, thousands of therapists have worked on the basis of this premise. Every school of psychotherapy refers to philosophical findings; many philosophers were also simultaneously psychotherapists. This article examines the meaning of a systematic elaboration of both the explicit and implicit basic fundamental philosophical assumptions, which underlie the founders of the psychotherapy schools.

Key words: philosophy, psychotherapy, basic assumptions, Henri Bergson

Author Biography

Paolo Raile

Ing. Paolo Raile, BA.pth. MS, ist Sozialarbeiter und Psychotherapeut in Ausbildung unter Supervision und leitet zwei Einrichtungen im psychosozialen Bereich in Wien.

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Published

2016-12-29

How to Cite

Raile, P. (2016). Psychotherapy’s philosophical foundation – a plea. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 6(2), 167–175. Retrieved from https://psychotherapie-wissenschaft.info/article/view/260

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Vol. 6 No. 2 (2016): Sexual variety - to the contact with various sexual identities in the psychotherapy

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Original Work

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