Carrying Forward

Explicating Gendlin’s Experiential Phenomenological Philosophy and Its Influence on Humanistic Psychotherapy

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ID9022335
AuthorsRuby Sharma (0000-0002-7575-3280, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume51
Issue2
Pages172-194
Publication date2010-04-19
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Humanistic Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1678 • E-ISSN: 1552-650X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0022167810363919
OpenAlexW1968906684
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited19

In his philosophical writings, Eugene Gendlin has developed a way of thinking about human experience that inextricably connects the body to language and thought. His work has stemmed out of a frustration with the limited scope of rationalism and deconstructionism, both of which currently dominate discourse in the human sciences. Gendlin has drawn on the work of a rich and diverse array of thinkers, from Aristotle to Heidegger, to develop a novel approach to understanding the subjective processes that propel the meanings that we create and live by during our existence. This article explores the philosophical influences on Gendlin’s thought, as well as the significance of his experiential phenomenological philosophy for our understanding of the human body, the process of thinking, and language. It concludes with a discussion of the implications of Gendlin’s philosophy for psychotherapeutic practice

Epistemology · Experiential learning · Humanism · Pedagogy · Phenomenology (philosophy · Rationalism · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

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