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PCSP is a peer reviewed, open-access journal and database. It provides innovative, quantitative and qualitative knowledge about psychotherapy process and outcome. PCSP is published by the National Register of Health Service Psychologists (nationalregister.org).

CE exams (two credits each) are available on selected recent PCSP case studies. 

Exam: Existential Psychotherapy in a Deep Cultural Context: The Case of “Keo”

Exam: Kelly’s Circle of Safety and Healing: An Extended Schema Therapy Narrative and Interpretative Investigation

Exam: The Hybrid Case Study of "Cloe"

Announcements

Jan. 16, 2023 -- FROM THE EDITOR  

ANNOUNCING THE PUBLICATION OF OUR 64th ISSUE (Vol. 19, Module 1)  

Existential Psychotherapy in a Deep Cultural Context: The Case of “Keo”

*** Jerrold Shapiro, Santa Clara University   

Commentaries 

*** Arthur Bohart, Santa Clara University

*** Amy Curtis, Private Practice, Burlington, VT, & Ronald Miller, Saint Michael's College

EDITOR'S NOTE

        From author Jerrold Shapiro’s Abstract: " 'Keo,' a 23-year-old native Hawaiian man came from a deprived and abusive background. After a period of seeming to turn his life around, Keo became depressed and withdrawn upon learning of a native Hawaiian culture curse that had been perpetrated on him and his sister.

        In the 24 sessions I saw Keo, I drew on my existential therapy principles to focus on his subjective reality and to work in conjunction with the Hawaiian subculture associated with the curse, including referral to a Kahuna, a healer in the native Hawaiian culture.

        A major existential dialectic that emerged in the case was Keo’s pull towards freedom from the curse versus his pull towards the status quo to avoid the anxiety associated with change."

** Below Table of Contents: Click on the article title for the Abstract. Click on the pdf button for the pdf file. 

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