PSY3120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Irvin D. Yalom, Nazi Concentration Camps, Gestalt Therapy
3 Sep 2018
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Existential and gestalt therapies: existential- study of existence. No, you have choice: does(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e (cid:373)u(cid:272)h s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272) literature o(cid:374) it, (cid:373)ore of a (cid:449)a(cid:455) of thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g about things, help client find meaning in their subjective world. Victor frankl: nietzsche= the most depressing philosopher. Wrote very profound things about the meaning of life. Spoke about how we need suffering in our life to produce meaning: tried to understand why some healthy people in nazi concentration camps were dying and some were surviving. These tiny choices allowed them to retain their humanity: logotherap, mans search for meaning is the name of his book. Freedom and existential psychotherapy: psychotherapy and behaviourism, deterministic. The world happens to you so you behave in certain ways: existenial= you always have a choice! In uk they have an mp for loneliness to see if they can overcome the problem.
