Existential Psychotherapy - ANSWER "A
phenomenological-personal psychotherapy with the aim of enabling
a person to experience his or her life freely at the spiritual and
emotional levels, to arrive at authentic decisions and to come to a
responsible way of dealing with himself or herself and th...
Existential Psychotherapy - ANSWER "A
phenomenological-personal psychotherapy with the aim of enabling
a person to experience his or her life freely at the spiritual and
emotional levels, to arrive at authentic decisions and to come to a
responsible way of dealing with himself or herself and the world
around them."
· Key themes and principles of existential therapy - ANSWER ◦
Choice- free to choose
◦ Freedom- free to shape their destiny
◦ Responsibility- responsible for their own actions or inactions
◦ Awareness- through self-awareness, people can choose their
actions and create their own destiny
◦ Aloneness- part of the human condition that people enter and
depart the world alone
◦ Meaning- part of the human condition is the struggle for a sense of
meaning
◦ Anxiety- is a condition of living and is inevitable
◦ Death- the fear of death must be faced before one can truly live
Founders of existential therapy - ANSWER ◦ Leading figures
include Frankl, May and Yalom
The existential therapist and the subjective world - ANSWER The
function of the existential therapist is to understand the client's
subjective world
,Anxiety in existential therapy - ANSWER The goals of existential
psychotherapy center on the given themes of existence and help
people face the anxieties of life, freely choose their life direction,
take responsibility for their choices, and create a meaningful
existence.
Guilt in existential therapy - ANSWER ◦ Existential psychotherapy
is centered in resolving life's existential themes.
◦ Dysfunction occurs when existential themes are unresolved, and
people live a meaningless life.
The "Givens" of existence (Yalom) - ANSWER ◦ Freedom and
Responsibility
◦ Isolation
◦ Meaninglessness
◦ Death
The three forms of the world- "being in the world" (Dimensions of the
World Views) - Existential therapy - ANSWER ◦ Umwelt - the
biological world, environment
◦ Mitwelt - literally means "with world" is the relationship with others
in society and culture
◦ Eigenwelt - "own world" self-awareness and self-relatedness. It is
grasping of what something in the world personally means to the
individual
◦ Überwelt - A person's connection to abstract and absolute aspects
of living - the ideological beliefs about life, death and existence
Umwelt - ANSWER the biological world, environment
Mitwelt - ANSWER literally means "with world" is the relationship
with others in society and culture
, Eigenwelt - ANSWER "own world" self-awareness and
self-relatedness. It is grasping of what something in the world
personally means to the individual
Überwelt - ANSWER A person's connection to abstract and
absolute aspects of living - the ideological beliefs about life, death
and existence
Existential approach and philosophy - ANSWER ◦ Explores the
here and now without looking into the past and emphasizes a
person's responsibility for their own existence.
◦ The approach is experiential/relational and based on the
philosophical concern with what it means to be fully human.
◦ Emphasis is based on understanding the human experience and
focuses on the client rather than the symptom.
Gestalt Therapy - ANSWER Gestalt, a German word meaning
organized whole, recognizes the unity of humans as integrated
wholes, not divided into parts, taken out of context, or generalized
Key themes and principles of gestalt therapy - ANSWER ◦ The
more we work at becoming who or what we are not, the more we
remain the same
◦ Authentic change occurs more from being who we are, rather than
trying to be who we are not (ex.- focusing on your inherent strengths,
instead of working on weaknesses)
◦ Be here, be now
Founder of gestalt therapy - ANSWER ◦ Founded by Fritz Perls
Awareness in Gestalt - ANSWER ◦ The initial goal is for clients to
expand their awareness of what they are experiencing in the present
moment
◦ Increased awareness is considered curative and by becoming
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