WILKES 527 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VARIFIED ANSWERS 2023/2024

WILKES 527 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VARIFIED ANSWERS 2023/2024 6 KEY PRINCIPLES OF EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY - ANSWERS 1. We have the capacity for self-awareness 2. Because we are free beings-we accept the responsibility that accompanies our freedoms 3.We have a concern to preserve our uniqueness and identity 4.Our existence is never fixed- we can re-create ourselves 5. Anxiety is part of the human condition 6. Death is a basic human condition and gives significance to living YALOM'S FOUR GIVENS OF EXISTENCE - ANSWERS freedom, death,isolation, meaningless WHO ARE THE AMERICAN FOUNDERS OF EXISTENTIAL THERAPY - ANSWERS Rollo May and Irvin Yalom WHAT DOES NEUROTIC GUILT ARISE OUT OF - ANSWERS Fantasized transgression WHAT DOES NORMAL GUILT SENSITIZE US TO - ANSWERS Ethical aspects of our behavior WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF NEUROSIS AND PSYCHOSIS IN THE OCD PATIENT IN EXISTENTIAL THERAPY - ANSWERS The patient did not accept and take into his existence his bodily and spirituality possibilities, therefore he is guilty and indebted to himself WHAT ARE THE THREE MODES OF THE WORLD AS VIEWED IN EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY - ANSWERS umwelt, mitwelt, eigenwelt TRUE OR FALSE - ANSWERS false-The function of therapy is to do away with all anxiety MENTAL HEALTH IS LIVING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE WITHOUT - ANSWERS Neurotic anxiety, but with the ability to tolerate the unavoidable existential anxiety of living WHAT IS THE "I AM" EXPERIENCE OR THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING KNOWN AS IN EXISTENTIAL THERAPY - ANSWERS ontological experience THE "SCIENCE OF BEING" - ANSWERS Existential therapy A CORE EXISTENCE CONFLICT IS THE TENSION BETWEEN THE AWARENESS OF THE INEVITABILILITY OF DEATH AND THE WISH TO CONTINUE TO BE - ANSWERS Death WHAT DOES FREEDOM FROM EXISTENTIAL PERSPECTIVE REFER TO - ANSWERS The complete lack of any external structure to life 3 CHARACTERISTICS OF NORMAL ANXIETY - ANSWERS -proportionate to the situation confronted -does not require repression -can be used creatively AN EXAMPLE OF NEUROTIC ANXIETY - ANSWERS a parent that is so anxious that their child will be hit by a car, never lets the child leave the house NEUROTIC ANXIETY - ANSWERS Tends to paralyze the individual and is destructive A CORE EXISTENTIAL CONFLICT THAT IS THE TENSION BETWEEN THE AWARENESS OF THE INEVITABILITY OF DEATH AND THE WISH TO CONTINUE TO BE - ANSWERS Death WHAT DID YALOM BELIEVE ABOUT FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY - ANSWERS That there is a conflict between the groundlessness and randomness of our universe, and a wish for WHICH "GIVENS" OF EXISTENCE IS THIS: WE ENTER THE WORLD ALONE AND WE MUST LEAVE IT ALONE - ANSWERS Isolation YALOM BELIEVED THAT ANOTHER EXISTENTIAL CONFLICT WAS BETWEEN OUR AWARENESS OF OUR ISOLATION AND OUR DESIRE FOR CONTINUED CONTACT WITH OTHERS AND NEED TO BE OF A LARGER WHOLE - ANSWERS isolation MAN IS BY DESIGN WHAT: - ANSWERS a meaning seeking creature WE ENTER THIS WORLD ALONE, AND WE MUST LEAVE IT ALONE - ANSWERS isolation THIS FORM OF THE WORLD INCLUDES BIOLOGICAL NEEDS, DRIVES, AND INSTINCTS - ANSWERS Umwelt RELATIONSHIP TO ONESELF, INCLUDING SELF-AWARENESS - ANSWERS Eigenwelt MITWELT MEANING - ANSWERS The world of one's fellow human beings WHAT "FORM OF THE WORLD" IS THE SAYING TALKING ABOUT: "THIS FLOWER IS BEAUTIFUL".....MEANS "FOR ME, THIS FLOWER IS BEAUTIFUL" - ANSWERS Eigenwelt WHICH FORMS OF THE WORLD REFERS TO: "THE RELATIONSHIP WITH OURSELVES" - ANSWERS Eigenwelt ANXIETY ARISES FROM - ANSWERS Our personal need to survive and preserve our being WHAT IS THE STATE OF BEING OR EXISTENCE ABOVE AND BEYOND THE LIMITS OF MATERNAL EXPERIENCE - ANSWERS Transcendence CONCERNED WITH THE "I AM (BEING) EXPERIENCE" - ANSWERS Existential therapy WHEN CAN A PERSON BE FREED FROM NEUROTIC ANXIETY AND GUILT - ANSWERS Only when he or she recognizes normal anxiety and guilt at the same time WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF EXISTENTIAL