A cultural-existential approach to therapy: Merleau-Ponty—s phenomenology of embodiment and its implications for practice

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 355-376

  Felder, Andrew J ^a   Robbins, Brent Dean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b POINT PARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

existentialism; Merleau Ponty; multiculturalism; phantom limb; psychotherapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958103581     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354310397570     Document Type: Article

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