The Existential Use of the Self

LESTON L. HAVENSAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 131, Number 1

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.131.1.1

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The methodological suggestions that have accumulated in the course of the development of existential psychiatry can be brought forward into a systematic technique. These suggestions arose in part because of the limitations of other techniques. In the contemporary atmosphere of rival and embattled psychotherapeutic schools, it will be useful to clarify the existential approach and to contrast its methods with those of other schools, especially those of psychoanalysis.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 131 • Number 1 • January 1974

Pages: 1 - 10

PubMed: 4808428

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Published in print: January 1974

Published online: 1 April 2006

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LESTON L. HAVENS

Professor of Psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School, 74 Fenwood Rd., Boston, Mass. 02115

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