Monday, December 23, 2019

Francesca Brencio

https://philpapers.org/rec/BREWTA

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08873267.2014.993069

The existential movement in psychiatry and psychology arose out of a passion to be not less but more empirical. ... The fundamental contributions of existential therapy is its understanding of man as being: It doesn’t deny to validity if dynamisms and the study of specific behavior patterns but it holds that drives or dynamisms can be understood only in the context of the structure of the existence of the person we are dealing with. (FB, 2015, p. 279, italics mine).