NSG527/NSG 527 midterm exam (NEW 2025/2026 Update)
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Existential Psychotherapy "A phenomenological-personal psychotherapy with the aim of enabling a
person to experience his or her life freely at the spiritual and emotional levels,
to arrive at authentic decisions and to come to a responsible way of dealing
with himself or herself and the world around them."
· Key themes and principles of existential therapy ◦ Choice- free to choose
◦ Freedom- free to shape their destiny
◦ Responsibility- responsible for their own actions or inactions
◦ Awareness- through self-awareness, people can choose their actions and
create their own destiny
◦ Aloneness- part of the human condition that people enter and depart the
world alone
◦ Meaning- part of the human condition is the struggle for a sense of meaning
◦ Anxiety- is a condition of living and is inevitable
◦ Death- the fear of death must be faced before one can truly live
Founders of existential therapy ◦ Leading figures include Frankl, May and Yalom
The existential therapist and the subjective world The function of the existential therapist is to understand the client's subjective
world
, Anxiety in existential therapy The goals of existential psychotherapy center on the given themes of existence
and help people face the anxieties of life, freely choose their life direction, take
responsibility for their choices, and create a meaningful existence.
Guilt in existential therapy ◦ Existential psychotherapy is centered in resolving life's existential themes.
◦ Dysfunction occurs when existential themes are unresolved, and people live a
meaningless life.
The "Givens" of existence (Yalom) ◦ Freedom and Responsibility
◦ Isolation
◦ Meaninglessness
◦ Death
The three forms of the world- "being in the world" ◦ Umwelt - the biological world, environment
(Dimensions of the World Views) - Existential therapy ◦ Mitwelt - literally means "with world" is the relationship with others in society
and culture
◦ Eigenwelt - "own world" self-awareness and self-relatedness. It is grasping of
what something in the world personally means to the individual
◦ Überwelt - A person's connection to abstract and absolute aspects of living -
the ideological beliefs about life, death and existence
Umwelt the biological world, environment
Mitwelt literally means "with world" is the relationship with others in society and culture
Eigenwelt "own world" self-awareness and self-relatedness. It is grasping of what
something in the world personally means to the individual
Überwelt A person's connection to abstract and absolute aspects of living - the
ideological beliefs about life, death and existence
Existential approach and philosophy ◦ Explores the here and now without looking into the past and emphasizes a
person's responsibility for their own existence.
◦ The approach is experiential/relational and based on the philosophical
concern with what it means to be fully human.
◦ Emphasis is based on understanding the human experience and focuses on
the client rather than the symptom.
Gestalt Therapy Gestalt, a German word meaning organized whole, recognizes the unity of
humans as integrated wholes, not divided into parts, taken out of context, or
generalized
Psychopathology, Theories and Advanced Clinical
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Terms in this set (68)
Existential Psychotherapy "A phenomenological-personal psychotherapy with the aim of enabling a
person to experience his or her life freely at the spiritual and emotional levels,
to arrive at authentic decisions and to come to a responsible way of dealing
with himself or herself and the world around them."
· Key themes and principles of existential therapy ◦ Choice- free to choose
◦ Freedom- free to shape their destiny
◦ Responsibility- responsible for their own actions or inactions
◦ Awareness- through self-awareness, people can choose their actions and
create their own destiny
◦ Aloneness- part of the human condition that people enter and depart the
world alone
◦ Meaning- part of the human condition is the struggle for a sense of meaning
◦ Anxiety- is a condition of living and is inevitable
◦ Death- the fear of death must be faced before one can truly live
Founders of existential therapy ◦ Leading figures include Frankl, May and Yalom
The existential therapist and the subjective world The function of the existential therapist is to understand the client's subjective
world
, Anxiety in existential therapy The goals of existential psychotherapy center on the given themes of existence
and help people face the anxieties of life, freely choose their life direction, take
responsibility for their choices, and create a meaningful existence.
Guilt in existential therapy ◦ Existential psychotherapy is centered in resolving life's existential themes.
◦ Dysfunction occurs when existential themes are unresolved, and people live a
meaningless life.
The "Givens" of existence (Yalom) ◦ Freedom and Responsibility
◦ Isolation
◦ Meaninglessness
◦ Death
The three forms of the world- "being in the world" ◦ Umwelt - the biological world, environment
(Dimensions of the World Views) - Existential therapy ◦ Mitwelt - literally means "with world" is the relationship with others in society
and culture
◦ Eigenwelt - "own world" self-awareness and self-relatedness. It is grasping of
what something in the world personally means to the individual
◦ Überwelt - A person's connection to abstract and absolute aspects of living -
the ideological beliefs about life, death and existence
Umwelt the biological world, environment
Mitwelt literally means "with world" is the relationship with others in society and culture
Eigenwelt "own world" self-awareness and self-relatedness. It is grasping of what
something in the world personally means to the individual
Überwelt A person's connection to abstract and absolute aspects of living - the
ideological beliefs about life, death and existence
Existential approach and philosophy ◦ Explores the here and now without looking into the past and emphasizes a
person's responsibility for their own existence.
◦ The approach is experiential/relational and based on the philosophical
concern with what it means to be fully human.
◦ Emphasis is based on understanding the human experience and focuses on
the client rather than the symptom.
Gestalt Therapy Gestalt, a German word meaning organized whole, recognizes the unity of
humans as integrated wholes, not divided into parts, taken out of context, or
generalized
