%0 Journal Article %T Psychodynamic Positive Psychotherapy Emphasizes the Impact of Culture in the Time of Globalization %A Christian Henrichs %J Psychology %P 1148-1152 %@ 2152-7199 %D 2012 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/psych.2012.312A169 %X

The emphasis of Positive Psychotherapy on culture is a specific contribution to psychodynamic psycho- therapy and to contemporary psychological reasoning and intervention in general. In this article, it is argued that a consistent psycho-cultural perspective as introduced by the founder of Positive Psychotherapy, the Persian-German psychiatrist and psychotherapist Nossrat Peseschkian (1933-2010), is beneficial for humanity¡¯s psychological needs in the time of globalization. Also elementary concepts and the style of intervention in Positive Psychotherapy are described.


%K Positive Psychotherapy %K Cross-Cultural Psychotherapy %K Psychodynamic Psychotherapy %K Humanistic Psychotherapy %K Short-Term Therapy %K Globalization %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=26217