title: Personal qualities of an existential psychotherapist: International experience
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metadata.value: Averyanov, Alexey I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-07-12T20:10:18Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-07-12T20:10:18Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-06
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metadata.value: Aver’yanov A. I. Personal qualities of an existential psychotherapist: International experience. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology and Education, 2018, vol. 8, issue 2, pp. 139–151.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu16.2018.203
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/10415
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metadata.value: This article views the psychotherapist’s personality as an essential efficiency defining a factor
  of the therapy process. The psychologist’s personal qualities manifest themselves through the
  choice of profession and continue to play a significant part throughout his or her career. Each
  psychotherapy approach has specific requirements to the personal qualities of the therapist.
  This article aims at studying the international experience of research into the specific personal
  qualities the existential therapists should possess in order to perform their work professionally.
  The existential therapy’s characteristic property is that the therapist uses phenomenological
  methods to work in the space of the client’s mindset and assumptions. An existential psychotherapist
  is not merely a professional role; most notably it is a way of existence, which implies
  specific worldview and personal qualities. Besides, the psychotherapist is to some extent a role
  model for the person in need of help. What makes this article particularly interesting is that
  the author not only considers the classical works (by R. May, J. Bugental, I. Yalom), but also
  the experience of contemporary leading foreign practicing existential psychotherapists, such
  as K. Schneider, E. van Deurzen, E. Spinelli, M. Cooper, R. Kočiūnas, A. Längle, and E. Lukas.
  Although these authors belong to different schools and practice different approaches, an attempt
  is made by means of theoretical analysis and expert commentary analysis to distinguish
  most common personal qualities of an existential therapist, such as life experience and maturity,
  authenticity, openness, engagement and passion for life, curiosity and aspiration for
  understanding others, oneself, and the world, ability for self-transcendence, belief in implicit
  meaning of human existence, high level of self-understanding and ability for self-reflection,
  flexibility, realism and commitment to truth, ability to build trust-based relations with the client,
  interest in philosophy, ethics, and religion.
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Psychology and Education;Volume 8; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the role of the psychotherapist’s personality in the therapy process
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: existential therapy and psychology
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: personal qualities of an existential psychotherapist
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Personal qualities of an existential psychotherapist: International experience
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metadata.value: Article
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