Natural science and the healing of persons |
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Authors: | James Hunter MSW |
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Institution: | (1) Community Health and Counseling Services, Lincoln, Maine |
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Abstract: | The importance of a counselor's philosophical point of departure is emphasized. Viewing the self as a conscious, free, and responsible decision-making actor in a world of substantial and self-transcendent meanings and purposes is suggested as the core of a definition that uses an existentialist point of departure. In the light of this definition, four specific inadequacies of counseling that uses a natural-scientific point of departure are identified and discussed: 1) it is overreductionistic; 2) it reinforces the view of self as helpless victim ; 3) it disregards the importance of transpersonal concerns; 4) it ignores the importance of conflicting world views between therapist and client. |
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