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He attributed his two failed marriages to his mother’s ____ and his older sister’s _____

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Unpredictable behavior
Psychotic episode

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His approach was based on ___ and not on ____

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Clinical experience
Controlled scientific research (experimental)

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True or false
He regarded human beings as good and evil and not capable of cultures that are both good and evil

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False
Capable

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He emphasized a balance between ___

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Freedom and responsibility

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He wished to understand people as they in the world as thinking, active and willing beings

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Soren kierkegaard

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They lack the courage to face their destiny

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Unhealthy people

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These are the people who are still functional but they have maladaptiveness; they experience and have difficulty to cope with these anxieties in life

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Neurotic people

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They challenge their destiny, they cherish their freedom

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Healthy people

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True or false
You find happiness not only to the people around you, but ypu cannot create your own happiness within the self

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False
You can create your own happiness within the self

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True or false
Death is a bad thing

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False
Death is not a bad thing

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Kierkegaard was concerned with both the _____ and the ____

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Experiencing person
Person’s experience

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True or false
People can acquire freedom of action through expanding their self-awareness and tgen by assuming responsibility for their actions

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True

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The acquisition of freedom and responsibility is achieved only at the expense of ___

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Anxiety

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True or false
Existence implies a static immutable substance

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False
Essence

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True or false
Essence takes precedence over existence

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False
Existence takes precedence over essence

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True or false
Existence suggests process; essence refers to a product

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True

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True or false
Existence is associated with stagnation and finality; Essence signifies growth and change

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False
Associated with growth and change
Signifies stagnatuon and finality

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True or false
Existentialists affirm that people’s essence is their power to continually redefine themselves through the choices they make

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True

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True or false
Existentialism opposes the split between subject and object

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True

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True or false
People are not both subjective and objective and must search for truth by living active and authentic lives

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False
People are both subjective and objective

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True or false
People search for some meaning to their lives

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True

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True or false
Existentialists hold that ultimately each of us is not responsible for who we are and what we become

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False
Each of us is responsible

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True or false
We cannot choose to become what we can be or we can choose to avoid commitment and choice, but ultimately, it is our choice

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False
We can choose to become

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True or false
Existentialists are basically antitheoretical because theories dehumanize people and render them as objects

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True

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What re the two basic concept of existentialism
Being in the world and non being
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True or false We exist in a world that can be best understood from our own perspective
True
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It means to exist there
Dasein
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Dasein literslly means to exist in the world and is generally written as ___
Being in the world
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True or false Many people suffer from anxiety and despair brought on by their alienation from themselves or from their world
True
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True or false They either have a clear image of themselves or not feel isolated from a world that seems distablnt and foreign.
False They either have no clear image They feel isolated
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3 simultaneous modes in their being in the world
Umwelt Mitwelt Eigenwelt
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True or false Mitwelt is the environment around us
False Umwelt
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True or false Eigenwelt is our relations with the other people
False Mitwelt
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True or false Umwelt is our relationship with our self
False Eigenwelt
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True or false If we treat people as objects,then we are living solely in mitwelt
False Umwelt
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True or false To live in eigenwelt means to be aware of one self as a hjman being and to grasp who we are as we relate to the world of things and to the world of people
True
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True or false Neurotic people live in umwelt, mitwelt, and eigenwelt simultaneosly
False Healthy people
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It often provokes us to live defensively and to receive less from life than if we would confront the issue of our nonexistence.
Fear of death or nonbeing
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Forms of nonbeing
Addiction to alcohol or other drugs Promiscuous sexual activity Other compulsive behaviors
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True or false Being in the world can also be expressed as blind conformity to society's expectations and as generalized hostility that lervades our relations to others
False Nonbeing
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subjective state of theindividual’s becomingaware that his or her existence can be destroyed, that he can become nothing
Anxiety
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True or false Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom
True
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True or false Freedom cannot exist without anxiety, nor can anxiety exist without freedom.
True
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Types of anxiety
Normal anxiety Neurotic anxiety
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Proportionate to the threat, does not involve repression, and can be confronted constructively on the conscious level
Normal anxiety
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True or false Neurotic anxiety is lroporrionate to the threat and can be constructive
False Normal anxiety
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A reaction which is disproportionate to the threat, involves repression and other forms of intrapsychic conflict, and is managed by various kinds of blocking off of activity and awareness
Neurotic anxiety
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True or false Neurotic anxiety is felt whenever values are threatened, normal anxiety is experienced whenever values become transformed security
False Normal anxiety Neurotic
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It arises when people deny their potentialities, fail to accurately perceive the needs of fellow humans, or remain oblivious to their dependence on the natural world.
Guilt
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True or false Both anxiety and guilt are ontological
True
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Three form of ontological guilt
Umwelt Mitwelt Eigenwelt
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It can arise from a lack of awareness of one’s being-in- the-world
Umwelt
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It is the inability to perceive accurately the world of others.
Mitwelt
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It is associated with our denial of our own potentialities or with our failure to fulfill them
Eigenwelt
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True or false Intentionality is sometimes conscious
False Sometimes unconscious
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bridge the gap between subject and object.
Intentionality
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The structure that gives meaning to experience and allows people to make decisions about the future.
Intentionality
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To ___ for someone means to recognize that person as a fellow human being, to identify with that person’s pain or joy, guilt or pity
Care
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True or false Care is the same as love, but it is the source of care
False Care is not the same as love, but it is the source of love
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True or false Love is also the source of will
False Care
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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
Will
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Delight in the presence of the other person and an affirming of value and development as much as one's own
Love
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True or false Will requires self cosciousness;wish does not
True
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For the mature person, both love and will mean a reaching out toward another person.
Union of love and will
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True or false In intentionality it both involve care, both necessitate choice, both imply action, and both require responsibility.
False Union of love and will
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Four kinds of love
Agape Eros Sex Philia
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It is a biological function that can be satisfied through sexual intercourse or some other release of sexual tension.
Sex
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A psychological desire that seeks procreation or creation through an enduring union with a loved one
Eros
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True or false Sex is built on care and tenderness
False Eros
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An intimate nonsexual friendship between two people
Philia
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False Philia is rushed; it does not takes time to grow, to develop, to sink its roots
False Philia cannot be rushed; it takes time to grow, to develop, to sink its roots
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It is the altruistic love.
Agape
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True or false Healthy adult relationships blend all four forms of love.
True
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It is the individual’s capacity to know that he is the determined one.
Freedom
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True or false Destiny comes from an understanding of our freedom
False Frewdom comes from an understanding of our destiny
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Forms of freedom
Existential freedom Essential freedom
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It is the freedom of action – the freedom of doing
Existential freedom
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True or false Essential freedom is the freedom to act on the choices that one makes
False Existential freedom
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The freedom of being.
Essential freedom
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True or false Existenrial freedom is the inner fredom
False Essential freedom
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It is the design of the universe speaking through the design of each one of us.
Destiny
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True or false Freedom is our destination, our terminus, our goal
False Destiny
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Normal paradox of life
Freedom and destiny
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True or false Freedom and destiny are intertwined; one cannot exist without the other.
True
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True or false Freedom and destiny give birth to each other
True
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Conscious and unconscious belief systems that provide explanations for personal and social problems
The power of myth
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May believed that people communicate with one another on two levels
Rationalistic language Through myths
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Truth takes precedence over the people who are communicating
Rationalistic language
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The total human experience is more important than the empirical accuracy of the communication.
Through myths
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May believed that the oedipus story contains elements of existential crisis common to everyone
Birth Seperation or exile from parents and home Sexual union with ome parent and hostility toward the other The assertion of independence and the search for identity Death
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True or false May's concept of myths is comparable to carl jung's idea of a collective unconscious in the myths are archetypal patterns in the human experience; they are avenues to universal images that lie beyond individual experience
True
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Apathy and emptiness are the malaise of modern times
Psychopathology
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May saw psychopathology as
Lack of communication
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True or false Neurotic symptoms do not represent a failure of adjustment, but rather a proper and necessary adjustment by which one’s Dasein can be preserved.
True
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Purpose of psychotherapy
Set people free
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Fantasy conversation
Psychotherapy

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