%0 Journal Article %T Humanist Therapies in Postmodernity %A Magdalena Roxana NECULA %A Simona Irina DAMIAN %A Ovidiu BUNEA %J Postmodern Openings %D 2012 %I Lumen %X The analysis of the disease from a spiritual perspective means to take into account those theories that do not consider the patient as part of some statistics or the disease as an exclusive psycho-somatic reality, which is due to disturbances of the physiological system. To consider the person exclusively from the stand point of the disease leads to a situation in which the diagnosis creates the patient. To asses that any condition of this nature can be cured or improved solely through medication ¨C as there is pressure from the U.S. health insurance companies ¨C has an effect of shrinking responsibility of the patient who is not involved in the healing process. Fortunately, in the twentieth century, a number of therapies that regard the patient as the central concern, have been developed- obviously, not regarding the chronically ill, which remain the patient of the psychiatric cure- as a person responsible for what happens to him/her, of affection, and the amelioration of his/her health. Of these, in our article we reviewed the principles of existential psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom, Viktor FrenklĄ¯s logotherapy and the humanistic psychotherapy (customer centric) by Carl R. Rogers. %K mental illness %K responsibility %K existentialism %K existential %K logotherapy %K client centered counseling. %U http://postmodernopenings.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/6-Humanist-Therapies-in-Postmodernity.pdf