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- Title
THE PLAY OF UNCONDITIONED PRESENCE IN EXISTENTIAL-INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY.
- Authors
Bradford, G. Kenneth
- Abstract
Psychology has been bedeviled by dualistic thought since its inception. Although Existential Philosophy is a principal intellectual inspiration of Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychologies, the challenge it poses of understanding human nature by undercutting the subjectobject split has yet to be fully taken to heart. This article reviews the principal elements of the Existential-Integrative approach to psychotherapy and sharpens its focus, informed by both Existential and Buddhist understanding, according to the nondual potentiality, or play, of emptyopenness (sunyata), the elusive heart of experientially-keyed psychotherapy. In this discussion, a distinction will be made between a threshold therapeutic presence of mindfulness and a more saturated, unconditioned presence.
- Subjects
EXISTENTIAL psychotherapy; HUMANISTIC psychology; TRANSPERSONAL psychology; SUNYATA; PHILOSOPHY; BUDDHIST psychology
- Publication
Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 2007, Vol 39, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
0022-524X
- Publication type
Article