This paper argues that client-centered psychotherapy cannot be identified in terms of its usage of a single method. There is, rather, an ongoing interplay between a method and the actual trajectory of events taking place in the course of the therapy. As a result of this interplay the therapeutic process can be understood in terms of several logical properties (of which most prominently self-referentiality). It is due to these logical properties that client-centered therapy can be recognized as far more sophisticated than is usually accounted for in attempts at its defense.
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.
