Abstract
Essence oriented and existence oriented approaches to family psychotherapy are very different treatment forms. This article compares and contrasts these two orientations in an effort to clarify the basic world view beliefs in existential psychotherapy with couples and families.
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Lantz, J. World View Concepts in Existential Family Therapy. Contemporary Family Therapy 26, 165–178 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:COFT.0000031241.68493.de
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