process experiential psychotherapy

an approach to psychotherapy that focuses on the client’s moment-to-moment experience and guides his or her cognitive and affective processing in the direction of client-defined goals. The therapeutic alliance, internal patterns of viewing the self and others, and an emphasis on therapeutic process over content are core elements of this therapy. See also client-centered therapy; gestalt therapy; humanistic therapy. [proposed by South African-born Canadian psychologist Leslie S. Greenberg (1945– )]

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Psychology term of the day

May 9th 2024

psychonomic

adj. denoting an approach to psychology that emphasizes quantitative measurement, experimental control, and operational definitions, especially in the area of experimental, laboratory psychology. The word was coined to provide a name for the Psychonomic Society, which was created in 1959 by a number of experimental psychologists who were opposed to what they regarded as a swing in the American Psychological Association toward an emphasis on the mental health concerns of psychology. See experimental psychology.