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What is existential therapy?
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Existential therapy is a process of searching for the value and meaning in life.
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What is attention given to in Existential Therapy?
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Attention is given to clients' immediate ongoing experience with the aim of helping them develop a greater presence in their quest for meaning and purpose.
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What is the therapist's basic task for Existential Therapy?
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The therapist's basic task is to help clients recognize that they do not have to remain passive victims of their circumstances but instead can consciously become architects of their lives.
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Who are 4 key figures in existential therapy?
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Viktor Frankl, Rollo May, James Bugental, and Irvin Yalom.
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How did the 4 key figures of existential therapy develop their existential approaches?
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They developed their existential approaches to psychotherapy from strong backgrounds in existential and humanistic psychology.
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Who were Viktor Frankl and Rollo May influenced by?
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Frued and Adler
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What are the 6 basic dimensions of the human condition?
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The capacity for self-awareness, the tension between freedom and responsibility, the creation of an identity and establishing meaningful relationships, the search for meaning, accepting anxiety as a condition of living, and the awareness of death and nonbeing.
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What is the relationship between awareness and freedom?
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The greater our awareness, the greater our possibilities for freedom.
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What are the 4 key points of Awareness?
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Awareness is realizing that:
-we are finite; time is limited -we have the potential/the choice to act or not to act -meaning is not automatic; we must seek it -we are subject to loneliness, meaninglessness, emptiness, guilt, and isolation. |
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What are the main aspects of freedom and responsiility?
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People are free to choose among alternatives, and they must accept responsibility for directing their lives. Reality is avoided by excuses which Sartre calls "bad faith."
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What is existential guilt?
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Existential guilt is being aware of having evaded a commitment, or having chose not to choose. It is the guilt experienced from not living authentically.
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What is the idea of "identity" in existential therapy? What is our greatest fear?
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Identity is the courage to be. We must trust ourseves to search within and find our own answers. Our greatest fear is that we will discover that there is no core, no self.
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What is "relatedness" in existential therapy?
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Relatedness: humans crave ties with others and with nature.
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What must relationships be based on to be healthy?
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At their best, our relationships are based on our desire for fulfillment, not our deprivation. Relationships that spring from our sense of deprivation are clinging, parasitic, and symbiotic.
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What is the Search for Meaning?
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Meaning: like pleasure, meaning must be pursued obliquely. Finding meaning in life is a by-product of a commitment to creating, loving, and working.
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What is "the will to meaning"?
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The will to meaning is our primary striving. Life is not meaningful in itself; the individual must create and discover meaning.
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What is anxiety?
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Anxiety is a condition of living. Existential anxiety is normal. Life cannot be lived, nor can death be faced, without anxiety.
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What are the 3 important key points of normal anxiety?
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-Anxiety can be a stimulus for growth as we become aware of and accept our freedom
-We can blunt our anxiety by creating the illusion that there is security in life - if we have the courage to face ourselves and life we may be frightened but we will be able to change |
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What's important about the therapy journey taken by therapist and client (in existential therapy)?
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-The person-to-person relationship is key
-the relationship demands that therapists be in contact with their own phenomenological world |
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What is the core of the therapeutic relatioship in existential therapy?
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-respect and faith in the client's potential to cope
-sharing reactions with genuine concern and empathy |
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