
Psychotherapy / Counseling: An Art or a Science?
While the understanding of the psyche interested the human race from the dawn of civilization, the end of 19th century is considered to be the beginning of psychology as a scientific field in the west, with Wilhelm Wundt often cited as its father (Kinderman et al., 2011). With the contribution from scholars and therapists such as Sigmund Freud and Carl Rogers (Kinderman et al., 2011; Rogers, 1985), who emphasized the importance of qualitative research, the seemingly paradoxi