Phenomenological approach in psychotherapy

Abstract

The article discusses the problems of interaction between psychotherapy and such a direction of philosophy as phenomenology. The basic principles of the phenomenological method are considered in the context of their application in psychotherapy. The author sees the main problems in the isolation of related fields of humanistic knowledge from each other, in the continuing commitment of Russian psychotherapy to an exclusively natural-scientific positivist concept of health and illness, and in the dominance of biologically oriented approaches. This is reflected both in the interpretation of the phenomenological method in domestic psychiatry, and in the use of phenomenology in various psychotherapeutic fields. The solution to this problem may be a deeper acquaintance of specialists with the philosophical foundations and methodological principles of the phenomenological method, interdisciplinary dialogue, expansion of the humanitarian component of professional training, which corresponds to the objectives of the further development of domestic psychotherapy.