Describes the Oshodi (J. Oshodi) Empty-Pot Healing Approach (OEPHA), an African-based psychotherapeutic approach that aims to create balance and foster achievement motivation. Illustrates the 11 phases of the OEPHA through the case study of an adult psychotherapeutic client. (SLD)

It is traditional among some peoples of the world to celebrate an individual's coming-of-age with ritual. Through these ceremonies, and the tests which sometimes accompany them, a society socializes its youth and transforms them inwardly by molding their moral and mental disposition. Without such ritualization there is a breakdown in the…