Person-centered and experiential psychotherapy systematic literature search in Danish: a bibliographical survey, 1960-2022

ABSTRACT

This systematic literature search aims at mapping all currently available Person-Centered & Experiential (PCE) literature in Danish language and is part of an effort to strengthen the PCE-tradition in Denmark. The methodological approach in this literature search consisted of three phases: 1) The collecting phase was based on known literature by Danish PCE-experts as well as a systematic literature search in the Royal Danish library database using PCE-keywords and known author names. 2) The sorting phase was based on using inclusion and exclusion criteria. 3) The reporting phase consists of this paper, a presentation at the PCE2022 conference and publishing the results online and in www.pce-literature.org. The result of the systematic literature search was a total of 144 Danish PCE-literature references distributed on the four sub-categories: 1) PCE-literature by Danish authors (47 references), 2) PCE-literature translations (25 references), 3) humanistic literature by Danish authors (33 references), and 4) humanistic literature translations (39 references). Literature by motivational interviewing is most common with person-centered approach and emotion-focused therapy (EFT) next in line. The discussion covers the status of motivational interviewing among PCE-therapies, the general lack of Danish PCE-literature, and a call for more translations into Danish of major PCE-literature.

KEYWORDS:

• Systematic literature search
• person-centered & experiential psychotherapy
• humanistic psychotherapy
• Danish translation
• bibliographical survey
• Carl Rogers

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Germain Lietaer for starting the PCE literature survey, and for consultation on the Danish PCE Literature Search Project.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).