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KMID : 0607619920060010051
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Psychotherapy
1992 Volume.6 No. 1 p.51 ~ p.58
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On Commitment in the Eastern Tradition, Tao and the Western Psychotherapy
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Park Byung-Tak
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Abstract
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In psychotherapy, I think there are three When we talk most crucial therapeutic factors. The first about commitment in psychotherapy, I think is penetrating understanding of patient´s there are two components. One is the central dynamic, major motivation or process of accepting one´s tasks. The other nuclear emotion. The second is accurate is completing tasks or keeping promises to empathy with patient´s emotional reaction. the end. In this view, I think commitment The third is commitment.is much related with the concepts of
Commitment is the act of doing or Western Psychotherapy such as will-power, performing something or committing to the freedom, responsibility, empathy, love, charge, keeping or trust. Or the state of being, identity, participation and maturity. being obligated or bound as by intellectual These are mainly handled in the various conviction or emotional ties. Philosophically schools of Humanistic, Existential and it implicates a decisive moral choice that Transpersonal Psychotherapy (Boorstein involves a person in a definite course of 1980, Boss 1982, Frankl 1963, 1969. May action (Webster´s 3rd New International 1953, 1958, 1963. Rogers 1951, Saul 1977, Dictionary) .Welwood 1979, Yalom 1980).
In psychotherapy, I think commitment is The significance of commitment was one of the most important, core portions of discussed by R. May (1958) in Existential the therapist-patient relationship. But it is Psychotherapy as follows : It is a necessary my opinion that the topic of commitment prerequisite for seeing truth. This involves has been neglected or at least not seriously a crucial point that decision precedes regarded in Western Psychotherapy, especially in psychoanalysis. knowledge. Commitment must be on a more
Presented at the 15th International Congress positive basis. But he also warned about the of Psychotherapy held at Hannover, Sep., danger of generality and intellectualizing
16-20, 1991. tendencies with the existential concepts. " Park Byung-Tak Neuropsychiatric Clinic,
Taegu, Korea. Dongshick Rhee (1989) spoke about com-
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