The existential therapeutic position states that what bedevils us issues not only from our biological genetic substrate (a psychopharmacological
model), not only from our struggle with repressed instinctual strivings (a Freudian position), not only from our internalized significant adults who may be uncaring, unloving, or neurotic (an object relations position), not only from disordered forms of thinking (a cognitive-behavioral position), not only from shards of forgotten traumatic memories or from current life crises involving one's career and relationship with significant others, but
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