The spectrum of humanism is large. One theory is the existential humanism, existential humanism can be thought of as the process of knowing and becoming oneself. In the early 1960, humanism and existential was used by American humanistic psychology to bring a new dimension into psychology (Schneider & Krug, 2017). Existential Humanistic embraces three values: freedom, experiential reflection, and responsibility (Schneider & Krug, 2017). The main goal of existential humanistic is to “set the client free”. Freedom is defined as the capacity of choice within the natural and self-imposed limits of living (Schneider & Krug, 2017).
The four core aims used to reach the primary objective of freedom are: to help clients become …show more content…
There are patterns in lived experiences that existential humanist believe to be phenomenolocally (Schneider & Krug, 2017). The E-H understanding of the functionality come from three interdependent dimensions: freedom, experitial reflection and the assumption of responsibility. E-H theorist highlights each dimension but they do it in a unique way (Schneider & Krug, 2017). James Bugental had an emphasis on the self as embodied. He had the believe that we are in the process of changing, regardless of how we tried to change it. Yalem conceived four givens of human existence- death, freedom, isolation, and meaningless. He believed that human pathologies are caused by the anxieties from awareness of the four concerns (Schneider & Krug, 2017). Tom Greening elaborated from Yalom’s work and indicated that we embrace paradoxical dialectics in one of three ways: through a simplistic overemphasis on the positive effects; through a simplistic emphasis on the negative aspect, and through confrontation (Schneider & Krug, …show more content…
Qualitative research on humanistic psychologist have been focused on the helping or hindering the clients identified events in HP therapy sessions (Angus et al., 2015). Humanistic researchers focus is on clients’ experience, the humanistic orientation is also client centered (Angus et al., 2015). Through research finding have supported that humanistic psychology is clinically and statistically equivalent to other therapies, are more effective for interpersonal problems, person-centered therapy is as effective, and EFT might be more effective than CBT and that the humanistic therapies studied so far appear to be less effective than CBT (Angus et al., 2015). The humanistic orientation hold value and have been empirically supported by research to provide effective interventions. Despite the layout of techniques provided by existential humanistic therapy, each therapist, and therapist-client pair have to rediscover what is optimal and what can be optimized (Schneider & Krug,