In search of home : Hillman's archetypal perspective on the therapeutic process of an adult patient
- Authors: Bradley, Margaret Antoinette
- Date: 1992
- Subjects: Hillman, James , Archetype (Psychology) , Psychotherapy -- Case studies
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3127 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006290 , Hillman, James , Archetype (Psychology) , Psychotherapy -- Case studies
- Description: The case study method was used to trace the therapeutic process of a 23 year old woman, over a period of 12 sessions. The focus of the study was her issue with abandonment which emerged as the central theme in therapy. Hillman's archetypal approach was used as a framework in understanding the process and resolution of her feelings of abandonment. According to Hillman, the therapy process activates the archetypal abandoned child. For a successful therapeutic outcome the process of de-literalisation must occur in order for the patient to move from literal acting out to symbolic containment. Core moments in the therapeutic process were used, together with an interpretation from Hillman's approach, to illustrate the various themes around the issue of abandonment. The present case study illustrates how the theory in area was relevant in practice with this particular case.
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- Date Issued: 1992
A phenomenological study of psychotherapy: a client explicates his experience
- Authors: Frank, Anthony Ernest
- Date: 1982
- Subjects: Psychotherapy -- Research , Insight in psychotherapy , Psychotherapy -- Case studies , Psychotherapy patients
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3128 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006344 , Psychotherapy -- Research , Insight in psychotherapy , Psychotherapy -- Case studies , Psychotherapy patients
- Description: From Introduction: This thesis involves a detailed explication of my experience as a client in psychotherapy. Being in therapy has brought about extremely important ·changes in my life and continues to do so. Being involved · in the field of· psychology as a student and therapist-to-be, the experience of therapy has also been a valuable source of a greater understanding of the process itself. The various facets of the importance of my experience of psychotherapy will become clear in my explication. It is a fact that experience, which is an essential aspect of our humanness, has been sadly neglected in psychological research. It is surely psychology's task to explore all aspects of humanity, and this neglect of experience has only fairly recently been questioned. Its reasons have been psychology's bias towards the natural sciences whose methods are not suitable for the study of experience. The tremendous achievements of the natural sciences caused psychology to adopt this slant, as Sigmund Koch (19.69) puts it, "The stipulation that psychology be adequate · to science outweighed the commitment that it be adequate to man". (p 65).
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- Date Issued: 1982
A phenomenological explication of a client's retrospective experience of psychotherapy
- Authors: Eppel, Mark Dan
- Date: 1980
- Subjects: Psychotherapy -- Research , Insight in psychotherapy , Psychotherapy -- Case studies
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSocSc
- Identifier: vital:3138 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006962 , Psychotherapy -- Research , Insight in psychotherapy , Psychotherapy -- Case studies
- Description: From introduction: This study is an attempt to explore and describe phenomenologically a clients total retrospective experience of psychotherapy. The research consistently and radically approaches the phenomenon of the experience of psychotherapy from the clients own perspective and is conceived as a mutual project between researcher and subject. The phenomenological method is used to explicate the subjects qualitative experience of psychotherapy so as not to impose any presuppositions regarding the nature of this experience. At all times the research remains as faithful as possible to the subjects personal account of her therapy experience
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- Date Issued: 1980