The psychotherapist's myths, dreams and realities
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https://doi.org/10.33898/rdp.v22i85.615Keywords:
Myths, Dreams, Phenomenological Experience, Psychotherapy, AutobiographyAbstract
This keynote speech from the Second World Congress for Psychotherapy begins with Carl Jung’s definition of myth as a vivid description of emotional experience and explores psychotherapists’ personal myths as representing their motivation to be involved in the profession.
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