The Existential Use of the Self
LESTON L. HAVENS M.D.1
1 Professor of Psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School, 74 Fenwood Rd., Boston, Mass. 02115
The methodological suggestions that have accumulated in the course of the development of existential psychiatry can be brought forward into a systematic technique. These suggestions arose in part because of the limitations of other techniques. In the contemporary atmosphere of rival and embattled psychotherapeutic schools, it will be useful to clarify the existential approach and to contrast its methods with those of other schools, especially those of psychoanalysis.
