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Influence of Personal Faith on Psychotherapist’s Professional Activity

Author(s) -

D.S. Drozdov

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

counseling psychology and psychotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.173

H-Index - 5

eISSN - 2311-9446

pISSN - 2075-3470

DOI - 10.17759/cpp.2016240508

Subject(s) - faith , psychology , psychotherapist , dimension (graph theory) , social psychology , psychoanalysis , epistemology , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics

The article presents the main results of the study of influence of personal faith on psychotherapist’s professional activities.The empirical analysis is based on interviews with practicing Orthodox psychotherapists, conducted in accordance with a specially developed procedure. The author makes a conclusion about the presence of trends in the practice of Orthodox therapists to one of the two poles, distinguished by the degree of directivity, the role of the therapist and their methods. The first pole — pastoral counseling, second — psychotherapy in a spiritual dimension.

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