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Lesson 11 - Rollo May Flashcards

1
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This has roots in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard, concerned with both the experiencing person and the person’s experience

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Modern existential psychology

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(process) takes precedence over essence (product)

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Existence

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oppose the artificial split between subject and object. Stresses people’s search for meaning in their lives.

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Existentialist

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Takes an antitheoretical position, believing that theories tend to objectify people.

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Existentialism

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5
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the basic unity of person and environment

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Being in the world (dasein)

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environment around us

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Umwelt

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relations with other people

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Mitwelt

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Toward self

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Eigenwelt

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Healthy people live in _______,________and___________ simultaneously

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Umwelt, Mitwelt, and Eigenwelt

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awareness of the possibility of one’s not being, through death or loss of awareness

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Nonbeing or nothingness

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People experience this when they become aware that their existence or some value identified with it might be destroyed.

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Anxiety

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Growth produces this type of anxiety to defined as that which is proportionate to the threat, does not involve repression, and can be handled on a conscious level

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Normal Anxiety

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Reaction that is disproportionate to the threat and that leads to repression and defensive behaviors. It is felt whenever one’s values are transformed into dogma. Blocks growth and productive action.

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Neurotic Anxiety

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Blocks growth and productive action

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Dogma

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This arises when people denied their potentialities

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Guilt

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This arises when a person fail to accurately perceive the needs of others

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Guilt

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This arises when a person remain blind to their dependence on the natural world.

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Guilt

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Both anxiety and guilt are?

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ontological

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that is, they refer to the nature of being and not to feelings arising from specific situations

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Ontological

20
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Delight in the presence of the other person and an affirming of [that person’s] value and development as much as one’s own.

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Love

21
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Action and intentionalities are?

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Inseparable

22
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the capacity to organize one’s self so that movement in a certain direction or toward a certain goal may take place.

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Will

23
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Without this there can be no love, only empty sentimentality or transient sexual arousal. This is also the source of will.

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Care

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Psychologically healthy people are able to combine this because both imply care, choice, action, and responsibility.

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love and will

25
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satisfied through sexual intercourse or some other release of sexual tension (physiological need)

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Sex

26
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psychological desire that seeks procreation or creation through an enduring union with a loved one, built on the foundation of philia

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Eros

27
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intimate nonsexual friendship between two people, takes time to grow, to develop, to sink its roots

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Philia

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esteem for the other, the concern for the other’s welfare beyond any gain that one can get out of it; disinterested love, typically, the love of God for man

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Agape

29
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blend all four forms of love

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Healthy Adult Relationship

30
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individual’s capacity to know that he is the determined one

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Freedom

31
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The design of the universe speaking through the design of each one of us. Our ultimate destiny is death, but on a lesser scale our destiny includes other biological properties such as intelligence, gender, size and strength, and genetic predisposition toward certain illnesses.

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Destiny

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freedom of doing or freedom of action

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Existential Freedom

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freedom of being or an inner freedom

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Essential Freedom

34
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seems to allow people to face their destiny and to gain their freedom of being

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Physical confinement or the denial of liberty

35
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are belief systems, both conscious and unconscious, that provide explanations for personal and social problems.

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Cultural Myths

36
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Determinism vs free choice

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Free choice

37
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Pessimism vs optimism

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Optimism

38
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Causality vs Teleology

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Teleology

39
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Uniqueness vs Similarities in people

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Uniqueness

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