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Sophia-Analysis

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Sophia-Analysis is the name given to the therapeutic method developed by Antonio Mercurio, who was an Italian existential personalistic anthropologist, in 1970s. Mercurio inspired from the Renaissance thought and developed sophianalytical method based upon four fundamental forces of humanity: religion, art, science, and philosophy (Mercurio 2011a). In the beginning, this method was only practiced in Italy, but then, it gained wide currency and a few institutions were founded to organize various training activities and programs on Sophia-Analysis. The first institution founded for this purpose was Sophia University of Rome (S.U.R.) (1978) in Italy. It was followed by the others, including the Sophia University of Rome in Geneva (1979), Brussels (1981), Paris (1984) et cetera. The findings obtained by Zerbetto and Tantam (2001) have shown that Sophia-Analysis is still one of the most common psychotherapy modalities being practiced in thirty-one European countries (6.3%)....

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  1. School of Education, Department of Counseling Psychology, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Duygu Dincer

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Dincer, D. (2018). Sophia-Analysis. In: Leeming, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27771-9_200186-1

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