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20 Cards in this Set
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According to Victor Frankl, what is the highest goal to which humans can aspire to?
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Love
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Therapy through Meaning
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Logotherapy
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What is the purpose of therapy according to Victor Frankl?
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to challenge people to find meaning and purpose through suffering, work, and love
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Area of philosophy concerned with the meaning of human existence
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Existentialism
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Existentialists Believe...
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1. The world changes as people's ideas about it change
2. Ideas of world = human construction 3. Self cannot exist w/o a world and world cannot exist w/o a person to percieve it 4. Must study human beings in their phenomenological worlds |
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People's perceptions or subjective realities; considered to be valid data for investigation
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Phenomenological
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Two people perceiving the same situation differently
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Phenomenological Discrepancy
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view that people are not controlled by fixed physical laws
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nondeterministic
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human confirms the other person as being of unique value - direct mutual relationships
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I-Thou
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person uses others but does not value them for themselves - utilitartian
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I-It
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6 Basic Dimensions of the Human Condition according to Existential Therapy
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1. Capacity for Self-Awareness
2. Tensions between Freedom and Personality 3. Creation of Identity and establishing meaningful relationships 4. The search for meaning 5. Accepting anxiety as a condition of living 6. Awareness of death and nonbeing |
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Realizing that we are finite/time is limited, we have the potential/choice to act or not act, meaning is not automatic - we must seek it, we are subject to loneliness
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Capacity for Self-Awareness
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People are free to choose among alternatives and have a large role in shaping personal desires; people must accept responsibilitye for directing own lives
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Freedom and Responsibility
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the courage to BE
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Identity
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What is our primary striving according to existential therapy?
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the will to meaming
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arises from strivings to survive and maintain our own being
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Anxiety
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gives significance to living
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awareness of death/nonbeing
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Aim of Existential Therapy
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1. Rejects determinism
2. People are free and responsible for choices and actions 3. People are authors of lives |
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Existential Therapy encourages clients to do these three things:
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1. reflect on life
2. recognize range of alternatives 3. decide among alternatives |
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Goal of Existential Therapy
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recognize ways they passively accepted circumstances and surrendered control-so to start consciously shaping own lives by exploring options for creating a meaningful existence
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