AN ATTEMPT AT DELINEATION OF DEVELOPMENTAL PHASES OF PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PRACTICES IN ALBANIA

The psychotherapist profession is establishing itself among mental health professions spectrum in Albania during the last decade. The paper aims at providing a historical account of psychotherapeutic practices, attempting to delineate historical phases of its development up to the current state. An enterprise as such integrates accounts and research from various disciplines, primary and secondary sources of data, to bring forth a historically situated narrative of cultural conceptualizations and treatment practices for mental health disturbances.