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• Archive: Topic Areas:Invited AddressCategory:Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 2000Faculty:James Hillman, PhD | Donald Meichenbaum, PhDDuration:1 Hour 28 MinutesFormat:Audio OnlyOriginal Program Date :May 28, 2000 Description Description: Besides the patient's past history and present intrapsychic complaints, besides his/her interpersonal relations, the patient lives in an aesthetic, spiritual, cultural, economic and environmental world of intimate things, physical places and invisible atmospheres.
• To focus mainly upon personal subjectivity to the neglect of the non-human factors falsifies the patient's daily actuality and endangers therapy with artificiality.
• Therapy must therefore bridge into the world.
• Educational Objectives: To name five areas of the non-human world that impinge upon any patien~'s well-being.
• To describe three therapeutic ways of bridging between the human and non-human.