Existential Flashcards
Perls - Term
Gestalt
Gestalt - Concepts (3)
Here and Now
Client responsibility (doing is important)
Organized whole person
Gestalt - Interventions (6)
Dreamwork (present moment) Role-Playing Top dog/underdog Hot seat Empty chair What and How Questions
Gestalt - Critics (3)
No diagnosis
Promotes self-centeredness
antitheoretical
Laura Gestalt
Assisted with theory and popularized with women
Berne - Term
Transactional Analysis
TA - Blend of what theories?
Analytic (terminology)
Cognitive
Existential
TA - Concepts
Life Script: Unconscious development at early age
Script Analysis: Person is partially living the script
Games
Life Positions
Drama Triangle
Ego States (different term from Freud)
TA and Freud - Ego States
Parent: Superego
Adult: Ego
Child: Id
Karpman - Term
Drama Triangle
- Victim
- Persecutor
- Rescuer
Harris - Term
Life Positions (Ok, Not Ok)
I’m not ok - You’re ok
- Myself is inferior position
- low self esteem
- Maybe belittled as child
- Please others
I’m ok - You’re not ok
- Myself is superior
- Quick to anger
- Be Perfect
I’m ok - You’re ok
- Health/ideal
- Means neither is inferior or superior
- Confident/Happy
I’m not ok - You’re not ok
- Rare position
- Project bad onto others
- Bullies
TA - Games
Games are played to avoid intimacy
Someone is always hurt in a game
Transactions are games
Cross transaction between the PACs of two people
Rollo May - Term
Existential Counseling - Introduced to America
Hint: May I bring this counseling to America?
Existentialism
Yes:
Growth and Self Actualization
Here and Now
No:
Analysis
Behaviorism
I-Thou
Horizontal relationship
