PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Ludwig Binswanger, Existentialism, Humanistic Psychology
7 Dec 2018
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Intro: humanistic psychologists disagreed that the study of the mind is just another science or it should resemble physics or chemistry. Phenomenology is one"s conscious experience of the world is more important than the world itself. Phenomenological approaches to psychology says that the immediate conscious experience is all that matters-the past or future doesn"t matter: the present only matters because you have free will-you can choose what you feel, think and do. The only way to understand people is to understand that persons construal, or experience of the world. Introspection: when people try to understand their own perceptions and thought processes. Existentialism arose as a reaction against european rationalism, science, and the. The purpose of existential philosophy was to regain contact with the basic experiences of being alive and aware. Existential analysis beings with a specific experience of a human being existing at a particular moment in time and space: ex. Right now-aka when you read the world now .
