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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 ]
Humanistic psychology tends to look beyond the medical model of psychology in order to open up a non-pathologizing view of the person. [51] This usually implies that the therapist downplays the pathological aspects of a person's life in favour of the healthy aspects.
James Frederick Thomas Bugental [1] (December 25, 1915 – September 17, 2008) was one of the predominant theorists and advocates of the Existential-humanistic therapy movement. He was a therapist, teacher and writer for over 50 years.
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.
Graves used a variety of names for his theory during his lifetime, ranging from the generic Levels of Human Existence in his earlier work [5] to lengthy names such as Emergent Cyclical, Phenomenological, Existential Double-Helix Levels of Existence Conception of Adult Human Behavior (1978) and Emergent Cyclical Double-Helix Model of the Adult Bio-Pyscho-Social Behaviour (1981).
Clark E. Moustakas (May 26, 1923 – 10 October 2012) was an American psychologist and one of the leading experts on humanistic and clinical psychology.He helped establish the Association for Humanistic Psychology and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology.
Martin Heidegger attacked Sartre's concept of existential humanism in his Letter on Humanism of 1946, accusing Sartre of elevating Reason above Being. [5]Michel Foucault followed Heidegger in attacking Sartre's humanism as a kind of theology of man, [6] though in his emphasis on the self-creation of the human being he has in fact been seen as very close to Sartre's existential humanism.
Kirk J. Schneider is a psychologist and psychotherapist who has taken a leading role in the advancement of existential-humanistic therapy, [1] [2] [3] and existential-integrative therapy. [4] Schneider is also the current editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology . [ 5 ]