‘They daren’t tell people’: therapists’ experiences of working with clients who report anomalous experiences
@article{Roxburgh2016TheyDT, title={‘They daren’t tell people’: therapists’ experiences of working with clients who report anomalous experiences}, author={Elizabeth C. Roxburgh and Rachel Evenden}, journal={European Journal of Psychotherapy \& Counselling}, year={2016}, volume={18}, pages={123 - 141} }
Abstract Objectives. This study explored the experiences of therapists who have worked with clients reporting anomalous experiences (AEs) to consider how they addressed such issues in therapy sessions. An AE is defined as ‘an uncommon experience (e.g. synesthesia) or one that, although it may be experienced by a significant number of persons (e.g. psi experiences), is believed to deviate from ordinary experience or from the usually accepted explanations of reality according to Western…
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