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Existential therapy is a form of psychotherapy based on the model of human nature and experience developed by the existential tradition of European philosophy. It focuses on the psychological experience revolving around universal human truths of existence such as death, freedom, isolation and the search for the meaning of life. [1]
Existential Psychotherapy is a book about existential psychotherapy by the American psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom, in which the author, addressing clinical practitioners, offers a brief and pragmatic introduction to European existential philosophy, as well as to existential approaches to psychotherapy.
Logotherapy is a form of existential therapy developed by neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl. [1] It is founded on the premise that the primary motivational force of individuals is to find meaning in life. [2]
Rollo Reece May (April 21, 1909 – October 22, 1994) was an American existential psychologist and author of the influential book Love and Will (1969). He is often associated with humanistic psychology and existentialist philosophy, and alongside Viktor Frankl, was a major proponent of existential psychotherapy.
People who experience existential isolation are more likely to partake in suicide ideation, and have greater depression, anxiety, distress, and/or worse experience from therapy. [ 10 ] [ 9 ] A combination of loneliness and existential isolation results in the greatest risk of depression.
Mitwelt is a German term used in existential therapy to refer to an individual's social or cultural environment. [1] Problems in the mitwelt center on integration vs. isolation, or individuality vs. conformity.
The dream state is equally real to the waking state and thus the phenomenological content is taken at face value. Because this dream state is an autonomous state of human existence, daseinsanalytical therapy can submit the dream content to the same 'analysis of resistance' that normal being-in-the-world therapy does.
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