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Humanist Therapies in Postmodernity (English version)

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  • Simona Irina DAMIAN
  • Magdalena Roxana NECULA
  • Ovidiu BUNEA

    (ovidiubunea@yahoo.com)

Abstract

The analysis of the disease from a spiritual perspective means to take into account those theories that do not consider the patient as part of some statistics or the disease as an exclusive psycho-somatic reality, which is due to disturbances of the physiological system. To consider the person exclusively from the stand point of the disease leads to a situation in which the diagnosis creates the patient. To asses that any condition of this nature can be cured or improved solely through medication – as there is pressure from the U.S. health insurance companies – has an effect of shrinking responsibility of the patient who is not involved in the healing process. Fortunately, in the twentieth century, a number of therapies that regard the patient as the central concern, have been developed- obviously, not regarding the chronically ill, which remain the patient of the psychiatric cure- as a person responsible for what happens to him/her, of affection, and the amelioration of his/her health. Of these, in our article we reviewed the principles of existential psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom, Viktor Frenkl’s logotherapy and the humanistic psychotherapy (customer centric) by Carl R. Rogers.

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  • Simona Irina DAMIAN & Magdalena Roxana NECULA & Ovidiu BUNEA, 2012. "Humanist Therapies in Postmodernity (English version)," Postmodern Openings, Editura Lumen, Department of Economics, vol. 11, pages 89-106, Octomber.
  • Handle: RePEc:lum:rev3rl:v:11:y:2012:i::p:89-106
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    Keywords

    mental illness; responsibility; existentialism; existential; logotherapy; client centered counseling;
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    JEL classification:

    • A23 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Graduate
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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