THE WORLDVIEW ATTITUDES OF AN EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPIST (BASED ON THE SEMINAR OF RIMAS KOCIUNAS “THE PICTURE OF HUMAN LIFE AND THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS: INTRODUCTION OF AN EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPIST”)

Abstract

The article is a description of Rimas Kociunas’ seminar “The picture of human life and the therapeutic process: the introduction of an existential psychotherapist”, held in Moscow from February 13 to 16, 2020. The seminar was devoted to the study of the basic philosophical principles of existential psychotherapy on which work with a client is based. A specificity of existential therapy is the lack of specific technical methods and methods of working with a client, therefore the content of therapeutic work is determined by a particular vision of a person and his problems. From the point of view of existential therapists, the personality is in constant interaction with the world, the result of which is continuous formation; therefore, instead of studying the qualities and structures of the personality, one should study its life world and ways of building relationships with reality.