The Bulletin of National Defence University of Ukraine

  • Received 30.08.2023,
  • Revised 16.09.2023,
  • Accepted 26.09.2023
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Vol. 18, No. 5, 2023
  • gestalt therapists; psychotherapists; personal properties; types of personal properties
  • https://doi.org/10.33099/2617-6858-2023-75-5-194-200
  • Pages 194-200

The conducted review of studies of personal properties of psychotherapists proved the heterogeneity of the available results in this problem field. The purpose of this article is to analyze the connections between the personal properties of Gestalt-oriented psychotherapists. Four types of personal properties are distinguished: personal, situational-personal, personal-activity, functional-personal, which can be considered different aspects of the personality of Gestalt therapists

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