Existential Marital Psychotherapy and the Experience of Managed Care

ABSTRACT

In this article the experience of managed care is over-viewed from the perspective of existential marital therapy. It is concluded that managed care disrupts the experiential nature of participation between couple and therapist, dilutes the authentic nature of the treatment relationship, decreases the importance of subjectivity, disturbs the discovery of meaning and purpose in marital life and deters existential communication.

Key Words:

• Managed care
• existential
• systems
• authenticity
• ethics