PSYC36H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Existential Therapy, Behaviorism, Gestalt Psychology
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Experiential therapy: two ways of knowing are possible; (1) awareness- is a process by which experience enters consciousness. (2) process- is central to experiential psychotherapy. Person- centered/ client-centered therapy: person-centered therapy has fundamentally shaped the current practice of. Introjection: describes unexamined acceptance and taking in of ideas, beliefs or identity without awareness. Projection: attributing phenomena to another person due to inadequate contact or awareness of yourself, or not being able to own an experience. Retrospection: an impulse directed toward the environment that is turned against the self. Existential psychotherapy and whole person. and the meaningful development of individual potential. (1) primary adaptive emotion responses is an immediate emotional response to a situation that helps an individual take appropriate action. E. g. , anger at violation helps a person to assertively set boundaries that may prevent future violation. (2) primary maladaptive emotion responses are also immediate but involve overlearned responses from previous, often traumatic experiences.
