PSY 337 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Emmy Van Deurzen, Existential Therapy, Ludwig Binswanger
11 Oct 2016
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Movement arose in the 140s-1950s in many parts of european as a way to make sense of the devastation from world war ii: they struggled with existential issues including feelings of isolation, alienation, and meaninglessness. Major figures: s ren kierkegaard, friedrich nietzsche, martin heidegger, They struggled with existential issues including feelings of isolation, alienation, and meaninglessness. Kierkegaard and nietzsche, with their pioneering analyses of anxiety, depression, subjectivity, and the authentic self, together are generally considered to be the originators of the existential perspective. Existential analysis: (daseinanalysis) emphasizes the subjective and spiritual dimensions of human existence. Life-changing psychotherapy: the effort to help clients examine how. Presence and searching opposed to merely talking about themselves: forms of resistance: Intellectualizing being and relationship to the world at large. therapy hour and in life. Emmy van deurzen (2012) states that existential therapy is not designed to client becomes more aware of it.
