My Experience of Being Present. A Heuristic Self-search Inquiry

The quality of the therapist's presence is accepted as an important factor in facilitating the therapeutic relationship, and the consequent success of psychodynamic psychotherapy, yet for this therapist in training presence has, at times, been an elusive and even mysterious conundrum. Heuristic...

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Main Author: Brown-Haysom, Nick (Author)
Other Authors: Kosanke, Garjana (Contributor)
Format: Others
Published: Auckland University of Technology, 2019-05-07T20:34:01Z.
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