PSYC 1235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Medard Boss, Flight Controller, Psychoanalysis
21 Sep 2017
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Victor frankl / rollo may / irvin yalom. Existential psychotherapy is an attitude toward human suffering [that] has no manual. It asks deep questions about the nature of the human being and nature of anxiety, despair, grief, loneliness, isolation, and anomie. It also deals centrally with the questions of meaning, creativity and love. More a way of thinking, or an attitude about psychotherapy, than a particular style of practicing psychotherapy. A philosophical approach that influences a counselor"s therapeutic practice. Focuses on exploring themes of a person"s current struggle such as mortality, meaning, freedom, responsibility, anxiety, and aloneness. Grounded on the assumption that we are free and therefore responsible for our choices and actions. Rejects the deterministic view of human nature. A philosophical method used by existentialism that was made to be free of presupposition. Soren kierkegaard (1813-1855) a danish philosopher and christian theologian who addressed the role of anxiety and uncertainty in life.
