Exam 2- Ch.4, Existential Flashcards
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Existential Therapy
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- came from wreck of WWII
- views people as sick of life and awkward
- all about putting a meaning to your life and finding your values
- high value on free will and human responsibility
- no one else is in your skin with you
- life is the journey
- this is a philosophy, not a system
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Rollo May
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- trained in theology and clinical psych
- felt the need to connect with every day’s special value
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Theory of Personality
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- emergence and becoming, not fixed on traits
- personality is dynamic and on going
- you create your reality, the world around you is your own work
- a person and the environment is an active unity
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Three Levels of our World
- umwelt, mitwelt, eigenwelt
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- Umwelt- in nature, ourselves in relation to biological and physical aspects
- personalities differ between how they experience things, you see the same thing in a different way than the other - Mitwelt- with others, social world, how you view other people, how you are with other people shows how you are with yourself.
- Eigenwelt- for ourselves, the way we reflect & evaluate & experience
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Neurotic Anxiety
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- denying that anything was in your control, looks at yourself as a victim and that it just happened to you.
- inauthentic response to being. Ex: kids are out of our sight
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Therapeutic Processes I
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- help client see they are capable of directing their life through active choice
- want as equal of a therapeutic relationship as possible
- uses existential anxiety as a guide and tool in helping them raise awareness and find meaning
- since lying is the source, honesty is the solution and authenticity is the goal***
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Existential Anxiety
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- leads to growth resulting from our own awareness of freedom
- honest response to nonbeing, we know it is a necessity
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Therapeutic Processes II
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- clients freely express themselves with little help from the therapist
- make unconscious things conscious and help them see who else their feelings occurred with
- honest feedback will facilitate breaking out of a closed world
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Therapeutic Relationship
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- a “being together”
- honesty
- the client not taking responsibility for themselves limits their freedom. Others rule your environment when you don’t do things yourself
- it’s all about responsibility, encourage them to take it, how to explore and live differently
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Existential-Humanistic
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- aspects of being alive (love, suffering, free will, death)
- Europeans: more likely to discuss limits, acceptance, anxiety, life meaning, apartness and isolation
- Americans: potential, awareness, peak experiences, self-realization, I-Thou, and encounter
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Frankl
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- went through concentration camp and got through it because he saw meaning in living, saw that life expected something from him
- ultimate freedom: the choice of how you respond cannot be taken from you
- Logotherapy
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Logotherapy
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- similar to existential analysis but closer to psychodynamic theories
- form of conscious raising that relies on a combination of personal feedback and persuasive education in a philosophy of existence
- lack of meaning is the main concern
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De-reflection
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- ignore whatever it is they are obsessed with by focusing on more positive things of life.
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Finiteness
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- sources of existential anxiety
- all necessary
- death is our finiteness of time, accidents are the limit of our power, anxiety over decisions represent our inadequate knowledge, rejection is the finiteness of control over another being
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Intentionality
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- source of our personal direction, basis of our identity
