@article{Levy,2013This,
abstract = {This article studies the present status of coaching and coaching psychology. It examines the unprecedented exponential expansion of coaching on the one hand, while simultaneously, the mixed attitudes by the public at large, and the scepticism within the academic community. It is suggested that the main essence of coaching psychology is the humanistic psychology aspiration towards self-actualisation integrated into a short-term and practical strategy for achieving it. It is argued that both,  coaching and psychotherapy serve to restore the impaired learning process of the individual. The learning process becomes disturbed when blocked by maladaptive, outdated paradigms of meaning which are no longer relevant  (gremlins, success blockers, defence   mechanisms), and which were relevant in the past. The maladaptive paradigms impair the assimilation of new experiences and their transformation into well-adapted paradigms. The restoration of an efficient learning process enables reparation of deficient functions (in psychotherapy) and selfactualisation (in life coaching).  Theorisation of a revised approach to  existential/humanistic coaching  psychology suggests that this approach  is sustained by other disciplines which  are based on scientifically valid research  methodology.  },
author = {Levy, A.},
title = {Coaching psychology –A new science in  search of its identity *},
number = {2},
journal = {Coaching Psychology International},
keywords = {Coaching; coaching psychology; Existential coaching; Existential psychology; existential coaching psychology.},
year = {2013},
language = {English},
url = {researchportal.coachfederation.org/Document/NoPublicAccess},
volume = {6}
}