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The Phenomenology of Psychotherapy

The psychotherapeutic implications of Husserl’s method of inquiry are examined within the epistemological framework of Kuhn, Piaget, and Popper, which provides a model for both psychopathology and change in psychotherapy. Change results from the experience of the therapeutic relationship that contradicts prior psychopathological paradigms. The phenomenological approach enhances this process.

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