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Existentialism Flashcards

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  • We are born with choice-the choice of lifestyle

* We are born as a self creator-a creator of our own world

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Structure of the Personality

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We are born with:

  • Freewill
  • Responsibility
  • Teleological (goal driven)
  • Holistic -the sum is greater than the parts
  • Unique
  • Creative
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Structure of the Personality

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  • Being in the world

* Ability to think and reflect on events or assign meaning to those events

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Daisen

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  • The biological world
  • The world
  • Objects
  • Environment
  • Drives, instincts, cycles
  • “thrown world”
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Umwelt

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  • “With the world” of human relationships
  • Mutual awareness of one another
  • When a person is treated as an object, then the person is dehumanized
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Mitwelt

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  • Subjective; self awareness from how we see the world

* For me, I perceive, I believe

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Eigenwelt

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  • The importance of beliefs about the world
  • Religious in nature
  • Can cause conflicts (Al-Qaeda)
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Uberwelt

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  • Think of the past and present and future
  • What are we doing with our time
  • Umwelt-clock time
  • Mitwelt-# of years known
  • Uberwelt-attention to time and beliefs
  • Eigenwelt-what is in the present
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The Givens of Life (Time and Being)

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  • Normal -appropriate to situation, not repressed, provide an opportunity to confront dilemmas
  • Neurotic-Reaction blown out of proportion to the situation, destructive, and of little value to the client.
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The Givens of Life (Anxiety: Normal/Neurotic)

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  • Death will happen
  • How people handle impending death
  • Can be dreadful
  • But asks, how will we be remembered?
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The Givens of Life (Living and Dying)

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  • Freedom to live life and have a responsibility to do so
  • Responsible for own world, their life plans, and their choices
  • The universe is not structured; we have ways to live
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The Givens of Life (Freedom, Responsibility and Choice)

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  • Referes to owning ones own choices and dealing honestly with freedom
  • Is turned into action when the client is willing-wishing and deciding.
  • Sarte-used bad faith to denote that individuals are finite&limited, blaming somone else for the problem and not taking responsibility.
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The Givens of Life (Responsibility)

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  • Psychological illness is the inability to wish (emptiness and despair)
  • When they wish, they must choose
  • Must live with the choice
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The Givens of Life (Wishing)

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  • 3 types: interpersonal, intrapersonal, and existential
  • Can be geographical, psychological, or social
  • Existential isolation is being separated from the world
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The Givens of Life (Isolation & Loving)

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  • How to bridge the isolation
  • I-Thou (where the people experience one another)
  • Need free
  • Fusion (lose sense of self in relationship)
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The Givens of Life (Loving)

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  • Why am I here??
  • What about my life is meaningful?
  • What gives me purpose?
  • Why do I exist?
  • There is an absurdity of life…
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The Givens of Life (Meaning/Meaninglessness)

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  • To transcend above a situation and self interest; to strive toward something beyond the self
  • Go above own needs to be aware of others and one’s responsibility to them as a human
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The Givens of Life (Self-Transcendence)

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  • A central genuineness and an awareness of being
  • Face the limitations of human existence
  • Issues related to moral choices, the meaning of life, and being human
  • Aware of self, and are more flexible in situations
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The Givens of Life (Authenticity)

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  • We are born with the potential to have the core experience of the human psyche: The I-AM experience.
  • This is the realization of one’s being, one’s awareness. One simply exists
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Function of the Personality

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*Essence is any feeling thought or action. Essence is secondary to the simple fact that one exists.

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Existence Precedes Essence

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*To preserve and assert one’s existence- the process of unfolding one’s potential

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Mass Motive in Life

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  • Reactions to the Umwelt

* We get anxious when we start worrying too much about what other people think!

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Role of the Environment

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  • Experience the world
  • Accept Responsibility
  • Search for Meaning
  • Self-Transcendence
  • Experience Freedom
  • Authenticity
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Healthy Functioning

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  • Handling anxieties with ineffective defense mechanisms
  • Neurotic Guilt-fantasized aggressions, locked up potentialities
  • Think too much of oneself
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Unhealthy Functioning

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  • Two individuals being-in-the-world together during the length of the session
  • Authentic encounter
  • Explore the inner self
  • Deal with Life
  • See freedom as an opportunity to change
  • Accept responsibility
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How Change Occurs

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  • Make the choice to live and experience
  • Understand that we enter and leave the world alone-and that we are alone when we are here
  • Bring intimacy and therapeutic loving the relationship
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How Change Occurs

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  • Existential crisis
  • Solid therapeutic relationship
  • Learning the existential themes and dealing with them
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Conditions Necessary for Change

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  • Be in the moment
  • Be open
  • Listen and experience
  • Getting over the dread, boredom, hate and bigotry
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Role of the Client

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  • Learning to get over the isolation and learning to love

* Learning to deal with transference and resistance

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Capacity for Change

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  • Natural
  • Does not take responsibility, is alienated, or not aware of feelings-victim!
  • Inaccurate view of thee world/inaccurate view of self
  • Whining, complaining, talking about insignificant material, seducing the therapist, or being inauthentic
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Source of Resistance

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  • Authenticity
  • What to do with the full realization of being
  • Find a task to pursue in life
  • Understand beliefs and values
  • Make good choices
  • Experience existence as real
  • Showing how they are dealing with thee four areas of Being in the world
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Goals of Counseling

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  • Identify maladaptive defense mechanisms
  • Discover destructive influences
  • Correct restrictive modes of dealing with self and others
  • Develop ways of coping with & utilizing anxiety
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Role of the Therapist

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  • Fundamental
  • Authenticity and understanding of the client as unique
  • Subjective experience of both therapist and client
  • Work on therapeutic love (loving friendship-a genuine caring encounter that does not encumber the client’s growth)
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Relationship with Client

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  • Openness
  • Inquiry
  • Acceptance of client uniqueness
  • Confrontation
  • Imagery
  • Awareness exercises
  • Interruption when avoiding responsibility
  • Encourage clients to own feelings
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Specific Techniques

Counseling Theories 2014 (6 decks)

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