PSYC36H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Existential Therapy, Existentialism, Therapeutic Relationship
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Deals with the present stress, while psychoanalysis focus on the childhood/past. Relaing to client empatheically (more human), while psychoanalysis is a blank screen". People choose" to change, rather than changing due to some external cause (contrast from behaviourism) Ability to choose is basis of human potenial for growth (self-actualize) Focus on unique individual experiences rather than a universal guideline for everyone. Overall, they are less structured, does not really diagnose problems, less manualized techniques. Highly focused on the bond with the client and goal for therapist: create safe environment so the client can be free to be genuine of their speech. Interested in making sense of humanisic experiences refuted the objecivity of science, believed that you can only the truth subjecively. More valuable to interact with the world subjecively, not objecively (though they are not trashing science) Rather than simply making objecive observaions, we should use our subjecive judgements.
