The Empty-Pot Healing Approach
Its Origins, Nature, and Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2344056 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Egbeazien Oshodi (The Oshodi Foundation, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-35 |
| Publication date | 1999-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Black Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-7984 • E-ISSN: 1552-4558 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0095798499025001002 |
| OpenAlex | W2165002893 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
The Oshodi Empty-Pot Healing Approach (OEPHA) is rooted in African ancient traditions and is characterized by Afrocentric-based psychological theories on therapeutic and personality dimensions. The OEPHA aims to create and fortify processes of optimal balance, vitality, harmony, and an index of achievement-survival motives. Therapy undergoes a circle of therapeutic actions in response to the 11 phases of the OEPHA: Entrustment, Expressivement, Ejectment, Elaboration, Enactment, Embankment, Empowerment, Ensemblement, Encirclement, Enlightenment, and Enrichment. The operationalization of the OEPHA was shown through a case study
Afrocentrism · Art · Empowerment · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Harmony (color · Operationalization · Personality · Political science · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Vitality · Anthropology · Child Therapy and Development · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |