Co-experiencing as a Key Category of Co-experiencing Psychotherapy

There are three ethical reactions on the misfortune of other person: compassion, advice, practical help (M.M. Bakhtin). The foundation of all these forms of common- sense psychological support is in humane co-experiencing. Professional psychother- apy should take into account its cultural-historical...

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Main Author: Vasilyuk F.E.
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Moscow State University of Psychology and Education 2016-09-01
Series:Консультативная психология и психотерапия
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Online Access:http://psyjournals.ru/en/mpj/2016/n5/vasilyuk_f_e.shtml
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Summary:There are three ethical reactions on the misfortune of other person: compassion, advice, practical help (M.M. Bakhtin). The foundation of all these forms of common- sense psychological support is in humane co-experiencing. Professional psychother- apy should take into account its cultural-historical soil that makes the category of co-experiencing significant for all therapeutic schools. In this article the place and the meaning of the category of co-experiencing in co-experiencing psychotherapy is considered. Co-experiencing is a constitutive category for the approach and is regarded as an internal creative work of the therapist, which is aimed at facilitat- ing the productive way of patient’s development of experiencing. Goals, subject and method of co-experiencing are being characterized. An analysis of links between categories of “co-experiencing” and “understanding” are given. A phenomena of “co-experiencing understanding” is being described.
ISSN:2075-3470
2311-9446