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Les auteures de cette étude britannique ont utilisé l’outil CORE développé pour les évaluations des psychothérapies du National Health System. Exposant rapidement leur démarche, elles montrent des résultats encourageants. Bien que 25% des dossiers rentrant dans l’étude proviennent de praticiens gestaltistes en fin d’étude, ce travail montre que la Gestalt-thérapie possède une efficacité comparable à celle d’autres modalités. Il confirme aussi l’importance des variations interindividuelles entre thérapeutes et appelle à d’autres travaux.

Humanistic and existential therapies have a strong emphasis on authenticity both as a vital characteristic of the therapist and as something desired for the client. Psychoanalysis has also put increasing significance on authenticity as an important ingredient in the therapeutic relationship. I question and deconstruct definitions of authenticity in different modalities, to consider whether, despite differences in language, they amount to the same thing. Second, I investigate the limitations of authenticity, whether it is a relational or intrapsychic phenomenon, how fallibility applies, what are the limitations of self-disclosure, and whether authenticity can best be thought of as an embodied experience. Finally, I consider the practice implications of examining authenticity and whether there is a useful alternative in sincerity. Keywords authenticity, humanistic psychotherapy, existentialism, inter-subjectivity

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