EXISTENTIALISM

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deals with the dynamic or ever-changing transitions.

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Existential psychology

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It is concerned with how individuals
relate to their objective world, to other
human beings, and to their own sense
of self.

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Relationship

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Existential psychology emphasizes
the importance of ___ in
understanding oneself and one’s
world.

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Time

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LIFE HAS NO
INHERENT MEANING,

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It is our choices that draws meaning to it.

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Points of Existentialism

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Proposition 1:
The Capacity for Self-Awareness

Proposition 2:
Freedom and Responsibility

Proposition 3:
Striving for Identity
and Relationship to Others

Proposition 4:
The Search for Meaning

Proposition 5:
Anxiety as a Condition of Living

Proposition 6:
Awareness of Death and Nonbeing

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____, ____,____ constitute the foundation of self-awareness.

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Freedom, choice, and responsibility

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____ explains that the core existential position is that we are both ___ (willful,
creative, and expressive) and ___ (by environmental and social constraints).

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Schneider (2008)
free
limited

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We are ___ and do not have unlimited time to do what we want in life.

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finite

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We have the potential to _____inaction is a decision.

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take action or not to act;

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We choose our actions, and therefore we can partially create our own ____.

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destiny

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We are subject to ___, ___, ___, ___,___

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loneliness
meaninglessness
emptiness
guilt
isolation.

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A characteristic existential theme is that people are free to ___ among alternatives and
therefore play a large role in shaping their own destiny

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choose

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Schneider and Krug write that existential therapy embraces three values:

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1. the freedom to become
2. the capacity to reflect
3. the capacity to act

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consists of lacking awareness of personal
responsibility for our lives and passively assuming that our existence is largely controlled by external forces.

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Inauthenticity

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implies that we are responsible for our lives, for our actions, and for our failures to
take action.

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Freedom

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From Sartre’s perspective _______ to freedom. He calls for a commitment to _________

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people are condemned
choosing for ourselves.

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is being aware of having evaded a commitment, or having chosen not to choose. This guilt is a condition that grows out of a sense of incompleteness, or a realization
that we are not what we might have become.

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Existential guilt

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implies that we are living by being true to our own evaluation of what is a valuable existence for ourselves.

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Authenticity

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Even though we sometimes cannot control things that happen to us we have complete control over how

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we choose to perceive and handle them.

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People are concerned about preserving their uniqueness and centeredness, yet at the same
time they have an interest in going outside of themselves to relate to other beings and to
nature.

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Proposition 3:
Striving for Identity
and Relationship to Others

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• It takes courage to discover the true “ground of our being” and to use its power to transcend
those aspects of nonbeing that would destroy us (Tillich, 1952).

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THE COURAGE TO BE

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entails the will to move forward in spite of anxiety producing situations, such as
facing our death (May, 1975).

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Courage

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The ability to be consciously aware of themselves and others separates human beings from other species.

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BEING-IN-THE-WORLD

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refers to the ability of individuals to be able to think about and reflect on events and to attribute meaning to them.

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Dasein, or being-in-the-world

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is what we generally think of as the world, objects, the environment, and living beings.

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Umwelt

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refers to interrelationships that only human beings may have.

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Mitwelt

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emphasizes the importance of beliefs that are religious or spiritual in nature.

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Überwelt

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one’s “own world,” is more than a subjective, inner experience; it is a self-awareness from which we see the world.

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Eigenwelt

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Before we can have any solid relationship with another,

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we must have a relationship with ourselves

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Existential therapy can provide the conceptual framework for helping clients challenge the meaning in their lives.

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Proposition 4: the search for meaning

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is designed to help clients find meaning in life. The therapist’s function is not to tell clients what their particular meaning in life should be but to point out that they can create meaning even in suffering (Frankl, 1978).

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Logotherapy

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Yet meaning is not something that we can directly search for and obtain

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True

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arises from one’s personal strivings to survive and to maintain and assert one’s being, and the feelings anxiety generates are an inevitable aspect of the human condition.

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Anxiety

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is the unavoidable result of being confronted with the “givens of existence”—death, freedom, choice, isolation, and meaninglessness.

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Existential anxiety (ontological)

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arises as we recognize the realities of our mortality, our confrontation with pain and suffering, our need to struggle for survival, and our basic fallibility.

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Existential anxiety

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is an appropriate response to an event being faced. Further, this kind of anxiety does not have to be repressed, and it can be used as a motivation to change. Because we could not survive without some anxiety, it is not a therapeutic goal to eliminate normal anxiety.

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Normal anxiety

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, in contrast, is anxiety about concrete things that is out of proportion to the situation. typically out of awareness, and it tends to immobilize the person.

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Neurotic anxiety

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awareness of death as a basic human condition gives

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significance to living.

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is the basic goal of psychotherapy.

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Authenticity

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Therapists with an existential orientation usually deal with people who have what could be called a

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restricted existence.

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• Existential therapists give _____ _____ to their relationship with the client.

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central prominence

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The core of the therapeutic relationship is _____, which implies faith in clients’ potential to cope authentically with their troubles and in their ability to discover alternative ways of being.

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respect

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Not all clients are appropriate for existential counseling and therapy. Those individuals wishing advice and suggestions from the therapist are likely to be frustrated by an existential approach.

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Initial assessment.

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______ experience is important as a precondition for solving the patient’s problems. Furthermore, this is an experience of the self and is not related to relationships with the therapist or to society

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“I-am”

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Four ways of being

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Umwelt Mitwelt Eigenwelt Uberwelt

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a Greek word referring to the critical point at which a disease is expected to get better or worse

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kairos