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- Existentialism
- Definition, Focus, Purpose
- Key concepts and propositions
- Self Awareness
- Self-Determination & Personal Responsibility
- Existential Anxiety
- Death & Nonbeing
- Aloneness & Relatedness
- Search for Meaning
- Search for Authenticity
- Existential Therapy
- Key figures
- Role of the therapist
- Appropriate population
- Phases
- ID & clarify client’s assumptions about the world
- Encourage client to examine the source and authority of their value system
- Help client to put what they learn about themselves into action
- Tools
- The Purpose of Life Test
Psychotherapy: General
Schools
User:The.Filsouf/Existential therapy
Existentialism is a very personal philosophy, it is often communicated indirectly by authors in order for readers to create their own meaning and understanding of it, in their own style. Thus it is different to all other philosophies of the time who are merely after some universal "truth" through empiricism and rationality. Existentialism refers to the subjective experience as the only meaningful truth, it is the philosophy of experience as defined by Sartre. Main themes idealise an authentic life in which the man has a passion and goes through a number of conflicting issues, a healthy authentic life is only achieved by creating a balance between these issues in the process of life.
- Concepts: Dasein (Self/other), Meaning/Nihilism, Responsibility/Bad faith, Existential/Anxiety, Being/Becoming, Experience/Essence, Freedom/Facticity.
- Humanist therapy - > Person centred approach
- Gestalt
- Personal construct
- Existential therapy
- Phenomenology
- Existential Givens
- The Frame (therapy)
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- Read
- http://thecommune.wordpress.com/ideas/the-commune-paris-1871/