HD FS 414 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Viktor Frankl, Existential Therapy, Apache Hadoop
30 Sep 2017
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Interpersonal therapy: client-therapist interaction is similar in major ways to any other human transaction, the client will communicate to the therapist in the same self-defeating way she/he communicates to important others in his/her life, therapist must: Identify the pulls of the client: stop responding in kind, not get hooked, metacommunicate about the interactions, metacommunicate, talking about the ways the client communicates, client"s interaction style is the problem. Philosophical approach: we are free and responsible for our choices and actions, anti-deterministic. Important influences: victor frankl, prisoner, nazi concentration camp survivor, rollo may, psychologist in u. s. Irvin yalom: psychologist, wrote great books, therapy through meaning, therapeutic love. View of human nature: reacts against the tendency to identify therapy with a set of techniques, bases therapeutic practice on an understanding of what it means to be human, to face the limits and tragedies of our existence. Isolation: alienation, meaninglessness, humans are constantly in transition, create our own existence and experience.
