Client Experience in Psychotherapy: What Heals and What Harms?

The purpose of this paper is to examine what heals and harms the client in the psychotherapeutic encounter, from the client’s perspective. The experience of eight clients was explicated using a model based on Giorgi and Schweitzer. The counselling experienced as healing by clients has at its core a...

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Main Author: Sherwood, Trish (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Rhodes University 2001
In: The Indo-Pacific journal of phenomenology
Year: 2001, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-16
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