Self-Cultivation: Culturally Sensitive Psychotherapies in Confucian Societies

The Counseling Psychologist

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1010-1032

  Hwang, Kwang Kuo ^a   Chang, Jeffrey ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

authentic self; multicultural psychology; nonself; relational self; self cultivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349116514     PISSN: 00110000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011000009339976     Document Type: Article

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