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Existential therapy Rollo May & Irvin Yalom
Founder?
- Universal features of the human condition and the
acceptance of pain as an important part of the search
for inner peace and happiness.
Existential therapy
- Anxiety is viewed as part of the human condition
Focus?
- Anxiety arises from our personal need to survive, to
preserve our being, and to assert our being can be
neurotic or normal.
-embracing the true nature of human existence to
overcome anxiety and find the meaning in life
-Believing you are capable of making choices about
Existential therapy
who you want to be.
Goal?
- patient to express an increase in his or her private
world by making choices in order to confront and
overcome feelings of meaningless and isolation.
, You can make changes to be the person that you
want to be.
- Based on the philosophical concern with what it
Existential therapy means to be fully human.
Philosophy - Based on a personal relationship between client and
therapist
- Stresses personal freedom in deciding one's fate
-Places value on self-awareness
1. Death: Death anxiety influences human behavior
subconsciously.
Existential therapy 2. freedom: responsible for one's life or destiny.
Yalom's four givens of 3. existential isolation: conformity to society's norms in
existence order to not be isolated from the masses.
4. Meaning of life: finding one's purpose (self-
actualization)
Existential therapy Understand client's subjective world
Function of the therapist?
1. Eigenwelt: own world (self identity, thoughts)
2. Mitwelt: with public world (interaction with society)
Existential therapy
3. Unwelt: natural world around (how we relate to
Individuals world view
environment)
4. Uberwelt: ideal world (based on beliefs and values)
- focusing on freedom and responsibility
- confronting negative thoughts and fears
- encouraging the embrace of life with hope, despite
Existential therapy anxiety
Techniques - it does not focus on past, but past are used as tools
to promote self-awareness and assertiveness
- the use empathetic approach to foster personal
responsibility for choices
Existential therapy Can be used for substance abuse, depression, anxiety,
Applications PTSD.
Gestalt therapy Fredrick Perls and Laura Perls
Founder
, Perls believed that one of the reasons patients
develop mental health symptoms was because they
weren't aware of their sense or emotion. They didn't
Gestalt therapy have recognition of bodily sensations, and poor
Perls Belief awareness of their environment. He also believed
mental health symptoms could be caused by
unfinished business (feelings are not expressed) and
not taking responsibility.
- Change occurs through the increase the awareness
Gestalt therapy of the here and now
Premise - it focuses on what's happening in the moment, both
within the client and therapist.
- move from environmental support to self support
through awareness and self-determination.
Gestalt therapy
- the goal is to have the patient gain more awareness
Goal
and eventually be able to support themselves for
regulation instead of relying on the environment.
- Focus is on "what" and "how" of behavior (what does
the client encounter and how do they respond?)
- Focus is on the here and now- "now" is the current
awareness of the client, "now" is applied to the
present moment, not past happenings (previous
happenings may be the items of current awareness,
Gestalt therapy
but the process of awareness (ex. remembering) is
Focus
right now)
- Focus on unfinished business of the past (people
who resent the past, and are not focusing on the
hearing now due to lack of closure)
- experience feelings intensely
- pay attention to their own nonverbal messages.
1. Phony- authentic, reactions are unauthentic.
2. Phobic- avoiding pain.
Gestalt therapy
3. Impasse- afraid of change.
five layers of neurosis
4. Implosive- awareness increase, not ready for action
5. Explosive- they are authentic.
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Terms in this set (121)
Existential therapy Rollo May & Irvin Yalom
Founder?
- Universal features of the human condition and the
acceptance of pain as an important part of the search
for inner peace and happiness.
Existential therapy
- Anxiety is viewed as part of the human condition
Focus?
- Anxiety arises from our personal need to survive, to
preserve our being, and to assert our being can be
neurotic or normal.
-embracing the true nature of human existence to
overcome anxiety and find the meaning in life
-Believing you are capable of making choices about
Existential therapy
who you want to be.
Goal?
- patient to express an increase in his or her private
world by making choices in order to confront and
overcome feelings of meaningless and isolation.
, You can make changes to be the person that you
want to be.
- Based on the philosophical concern with what it
Existential therapy means to be fully human.
Philosophy - Based on a personal relationship between client and
therapist
- Stresses personal freedom in deciding one's fate
-Places value on self-awareness
1. Death: Death anxiety influences human behavior
subconsciously.
Existential therapy 2. freedom: responsible for one's life or destiny.
Yalom's four givens of 3. existential isolation: conformity to society's norms in
existence order to not be isolated from the masses.
4. Meaning of life: finding one's purpose (self-
actualization)
Existential therapy Understand client's subjective world
Function of the therapist?
1. Eigenwelt: own world (self identity, thoughts)
2. Mitwelt: with public world (interaction with society)
Existential therapy
3. Unwelt: natural world around (how we relate to
Individuals world view
environment)
4. Uberwelt: ideal world (based on beliefs and values)
- focusing on freedom and responsibility
- confronting negative thoughts and fears
- encouraging the embrace of life with hope, despite
Existential therapy anxiety
Techniques - it does not focus on past, but past are used as tools
to promote self-awareness and assertiveness
- the use empathetic approach to foster personal
responsibility for choices
Existential therapy Can be used for substance abuse, depression, anxiety,
Applications PTSD.
Gestalt therapy Fredrick Perls and Laura Perls
Founder
, Perls believed that one of the reasons patients
develop mental health symptoms was because they
weren't aware of their sense or emotion. They didn't
Gestalt therapy have recognition of bodily sensations, and poor
Perls Belief awareness of their environment. He also believed
mental health symptoms could be caused by
unfinished business (feelings are not expressed) and
not taking responsibility.
- Change occurs through the increase the awareness
Gestalt therapy of the here and now
Premise - it focuses on what's happening in the moment, both
within the client and therapist.
- move from environmental support to self support
through awareness and self-determination.
Gestalt therapy
- the goal is to have the patient gain more awareness
Goal
and eventually be able to support themselves for
regulation instead of relying on the environment.
- Focus is on "what" and "how" of behavior (what does
the client encounter and how do they respond?)
- Focus is on the here and now- "now" is the current
awareness of the client, "now" is applied to the
present moment, not past happenings (previous
happenings may be the items of current awareness,
Gestalt therapy
but the process of awareness (ex. remembering) is
Focus
right now)
- Focus on unfinished business of the past (people
who resent the past, and are not focusing on the
hearing now due to lack of closure)
- experience feelings intensely
- pay attention to their own nonverbal messages.
1. Phony- authentic, reactions are unauthentic.
2. Phobic- avoiding pain.
Gestalt therapy
3. Impasse- afraid of change.
five layers of neurosis
4. Implosive- awareness increase, not ready for action
5. Explosive- they are authentic.
