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Positive Psychotherapy and Other Psychotherapeutic Methods

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Positive Psychotherapy (PPT after Peseschkian) integrates psychodynamic, humanistic, and cognitive-behavioral thought into a well-structured conceptual framework in which all concepts are formulated as capacities that unfold in a lifetime process of differentiation. From the perspective of the therapeutic understanding, Positive Psychotherapy is closer to the psychodynamic schools; in terms of its structured intervention, it is closer to the cognitive-behavioral schools. The Positive Psychotherapy perspective emphasizes the importance of human resources and capabilities in the psychotherapeutic intervention and underlines the importance of understanding the meaning of symptoms for solving them. In its emphasis on culture, in both theoretical reasoning and practical intervention, Positive Psychotherapy goes beyond pre-existing psychotherapeutic schools.

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  1. German Association for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy (DGPP), Private Psychotherapeutic Practice, Cologne, Germany

    Christian Henrichs

  2. Romanian Association for Positive Psychotherapy (RAPP), Private Psychotherapeutic Practice, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Gabriela Hum

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  1. Professor of Psychiatry, College of Medicine University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA

    Erick Messias

  2. Wiesbaden Academy of Psychotherapy, World Association for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy, Wiesbaden, Germany

    Hamid Peseschkian

  3. Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Consuelo Cagande

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Henrichs, C., Hum, G. (2020). Positive Psychotherapy and Other Psychotherapeutic Methods. In: Messias, E., Peseschkian, H., Cagande, C. (eds) Positive Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33264-8_32

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