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This chapter introduces the phenomenological-existential approach to psychotherapy and intervention. It begins with a comparison between two models of care—deficit-correction and understanding-collaboration—and explains the use and implementation of each according to various psychological perspectives, including the psychodynamic and the cognitive. The chapter differentiates the phenomenological-existential therapeutic approach from other psychotherapeutic perspectives, particularly as to how it advocates intervention with no predefined therapeutic goals, in order to preserve the importance of the subjective experience and the uniqueness of the individual.
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Davidov, J., Russo-Netzer, P. (2022). The Therapeutic Model. In: Existential Authenticity . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07842-2_4
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