In this article we present a concept for person-centered psychotherapy that orients itself on criteria for goal-directedness and functionality as regards content. The goal is to describe themes in the field of psychological disturbances that mainly contain specific feelings and their connection with the situation at hand. To take up these themes facilitates acces to the 'inner world' of the client, his self-image, and his organismic experiences. The functional means to approach these themes are gathered from the therapeutic concepts for action in conversational psychotherapy: empathic understanding, immediacy, confrontation, and selfdisclosure. The core-themes of an actual disturbance can be elaborated in a phase-specific order
disturbance-centered, core-themes, concepts for therapeutic action, modes of intervention, depression
The tPeP (Journal Person-centered experiential Psychotherapy) is the scientific journal for Dutch and Flemish psychotherapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists, that work from, or are interested in a client-centered perspective.