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MAY Flashcards

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Existential Psychology was rooted in the philosophy of

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Kierkegaard
Nietzsche
Heidegger
Sartre

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Rollo May’s existential psychology saw people that

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Living in the world of present experiences and ultimately being responsible for who they became

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Kierkegaard opposed

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any attempt to see people as objects

And view that subjective perceptions are one’s only reality

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Existentialist emphasized the balance between

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Freedom and responsibility

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When they Realize that people are incharge of their own destiny they experience

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Burden of freedom and pain of responsibility

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Elements of existential thinkers

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Existence over essence
Opposes Split between subjective and objective
People searxh fir the meaning of their life
Each of us is responsible for who we are and become
Antitheoretical

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Two concepts of existentialism

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Being in the world

Nonbeing

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Basic unity of the world and the environment

Awareness of self as living and emerging being

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Dasein/being in the world

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Three manifestation of alienation or the illness ofnour time

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Separation from nature
Lack of meaningful interpersonal relationship
Alienation from one’s authentic self

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Modes of being in the world

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Umwelt
Mitwelt
Eigenwelt

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relationship with the environment

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Umwelt

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Relationship with other people

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Mitwelt

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Relarionship with self

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Eigenwelt

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Dread of non being or nothingness

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Non being

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Most obvious avenue of non being

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Death

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Non being can also be expressed thru

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Blind conformity to society

Generalized hostility that pervades relationship with others

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Concerned with the individuals struggle to work through life’s experiences and to grow toward becoming more fully human

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Existential psychology

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People experience anxiety when

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They become aware that thei existence or some value identified with it might be destroeyd

Threat to some important value

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The subjective state of the individuals becoming aware that his existence can be destroyed that he can become nothing

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Anxiety

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Exist when one confronts the issue of fulfilling one’s potentiality which leads to stagnation and decay nut can also result to growth and change

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Anxiety

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Acquisitin pf freedom can kead to

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Anxiety and likewise

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Anxiety can be either

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Neurotic

Normal

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proportionate to the threat, does not involve repression an can be confronted constructively on the conscious level

To grow and change one’s value

Threat to one’s value

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Normal anxiety

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Reaction disproportionate to the threat involves repression and other forms of intrapsychic conflict and managed by various kind of blocking off activity and awareness

when values become transformed into dogma/belief

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Neurotic anxiety

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When people deny potentialities, fail to accurately perceive the needs of fellow humans or remain pblivious to their dependence on the natural world

Lacf of awareness in ones being in the world

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Guilt

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Structure that gives meaning to experience and allows people to mKe decisions about future

Without this people could neither choose or act on their choices

Overcomes the dichotomy between subject and object

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IntentionAlity

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Forms of love

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Sex
Eros
Philia
Agape

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Biological function that can be satisfied through sexual intercourse or some other release kf sexual tension

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Sex

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Psychological desire that seeks procreation or creation through an enduring union with a loved one

built on care and tenderness

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Eros

30
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Intimate non sexual relationship between two people

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Philia

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Esteem for other, concern for the others welfare beyond ang gain that one can get out of it, the love of God for man

Altruistic love

Undeserved unconditional

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Agape

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entails being able to harbor different possibilities in ones mind evn though it is not clear at the moment which way one must act

Possibility of changing

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Freedom

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2 forms of freedom

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Essential freedom

Existential freedom

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Freedom of action - freedom of doing
Freedom to act on the choices that one makes
Freedom to move, to pursue tangible goals

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Existential freedom

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Freedom of being

Freedom to think, plan, hope

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Essential freedom

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Design of the universe to us

Our destination, our terminus, our goal

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Destiny

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Our ultimate destiny

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Death

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Freedom and destiny are

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Inexorably intertwined , one cannot exist without the ofher

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Conscious and unconscious belief systems that provide explanations for personal and social problems

Stories that unify society

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Myth

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Teo level pf people communicate with others

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Rationalistic language

Myths

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On this level TRUTH takes precedence over the people who are communicating

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Rationalistic language

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On this level TOTAL HUMAN EXPERIENCE is more important than the empirical accuaecy of the communication

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Myths

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Why do people use myths and symbold

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To transcend the immediate concrete situation

To expand self awareness

To search for identity

44
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Principal ingredients of psychopathology accdg to May

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Alienation
Apathy
Emptiness

45
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May saw psychopathology as

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Lack of communication

46
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May said that psychotherapy

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Should make people more human
Expand their choices so that they will be in a better position to make choices
And should set people free

These choices lead to GROWTH OF FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY

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Belief sytems, both conscious and unconscious that provide explanations to personal and social problems

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Cultural myths

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The capacity to organize oneself so that movement in a certain direction or toward a certain goal may take place

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Will

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To emerge or to become
Suggests process
Associated with growth and change

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Existence

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Implies a static immutable substance
Refers to product
Signifies stagnation and finality
Power to continually redefine themselves through choices they make

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Essence

51
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Existentialists uses this approach in understanding humanity

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Phenomenological approach

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