Implicit Process-oriented Constituents of Existential Psychotherapy Practiced by I. Yalom, E. Spinelli, J. Bugental

It is becoming ever more vital nowadays to find specific and common efficacy factors in psychotherapy of different branches. It is important to define constituents of psychotherapeutic process which are linked to theoretical orientation of the therapist and weigh their influence on therapeutic outcomes. Psychotherapeutic cases written by I. Yalom, E. Spinelli and J. Bugental are examined in this master thesis. This work is centered upon implicit process-oriented constituents of therapy, which can be found in cases written by these authors. Implicit constituents are revealed based on the comparison of constituents of psychotherapy, obtained as a result of thematic analysis applied to the cases, with approaches to therapy described by these authors in their theories. This work presents implicit process-oriented constituents of psychotherapy, as practiced by these three masters of therapy, which were derived from thematic analysis of therapeutic cases. It is demonstrated that there is a general structure of psychotherapeutic process shared by these authors.