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The use of existential-philosophic concepts in psychotherapy

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of California Medical Center, 491 North Santa Cruz Ave., 95030, Los Gatos, California

    Julius E. Heuscher M.D., F.A.P.A. (is in private psychotherapeutic practice; lecturer)

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He is the author of articles dealing with existential psychotherapy and with the phenomenologic approach to myths and fairy tales. He has writtenA Psychiatric Study of Fairy Tales

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Heuscher, J.E. The use of existential-philosophic concepts in psychotherapy. Am J Psychoanal 29, 170–185 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01873849

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