Basic Concepts
Existential Movies
Basic Dimensions of Humans
Basic Dimensions of Humans
Therapist & Client Relationship
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Existential Psychotherapy is a philosophy concerned with ___________?
What is human nature. It is philosophical in nature in that it focuses on issues central to human existence; understanding what it means to be human.
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Two imprisoned men (Tim Robbins & Morgan Freeman) bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
What is Shawshank Redemption.
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Having a clear perception of your personality, including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivations, and emotions.
What is Self-awareness. The experiential approach to therapy places primary value on self-awareness.
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Provides motivation for us to live our lives fully and take advantage of each opportunity to do something meaningful.
What is Death.
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Therapists should share reactions with a client in this manner as a way of deepening the therapeutic relationship. It is an action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to and experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another.
What is Empathy.
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Existential therapy focuses on what approach to therapy?
What is Experiential approach. It is based on personal relationships between the client and therapist. It places primary value on self-awareness and stresses personal freedom in deciding one's fate.
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A down-on-his luck father, whose insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant, takes the hospital's emergency room hostage until the doctors agree to perform the operation.
What is John Q.
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In regards to the search for meaning, purpose, and values in life, the existential vacuum refers to meaninglessness in life that leads to this.
What is Emptiness and/ or Hollowness.
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In regards to the existence of isolation, this type of isolation is a divide between one's self and others.
What is Existential Isolation.
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Involves both the conscious and subconscious act of revealing more about oneself to others while it aids in developing an authentic experience between therapist and client.
What is Self-Disclosure.
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Key contributor whose approach to existential therapy is includes logotherapy.
Who is Viktor Frankl. Logotherapy is founded on the belief that it is the striving to find a meaning in one's life that is the primary, most powerful motivating and driving force in humans.
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A young navy man, played by Derek Luke, is forced to see a psychiatrist (Denzel Washington) after a violent outburst against a fellow crewman. During the course of treatment a painful past is revealed and a new hope begins.
What is Antwone Fisher
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This existential concept refers to the fact that we are the authors of our own world.
What is Freedom. The central issue in existential therapy is freedom and responsibility. We are responsible for our own lives, for our actions, and for our failure to take action. Our freedom requires us to accept responsibility for directing our own life.
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This type of isolation involves individuals who are isolated from themselves.
What is Interpersonal.
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Expanding this in a client is one of the therapeutic goals of Existentialists. It involves introspection.
What is Self-Reflection and/ or Self-Awareness. To expand our awareness increases our capacity to live fully.
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Experiential approach to therapy places primary value on this; it involves introspection and the ability to separate from the environment and other individuals.
What is Self-Awareness.
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Mathematical genius (Russel Crowe) who made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. He then found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. He struggles to maintain his sanity as those around him suspect a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. Battling decades of illness, he is ultimately able to gain some control over his mental state, and goes on to win Nobel Peace Prize.
What is A Beautiful Mind
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An appropriate outcome/reaction/behavior of being confronted with the four concerns of existence.
What is Normal Anxiety.
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There are two forms of this that arise from striving to survive: normal and repressed neurotic.
What is Anxiety. Anxiety can be a stimulus for growth as we become aware of and accept our freedom.
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Existential therapy is a shared journey between a therapist and client that examines meaning in life. It is based on this type of relationship between a therapist and client.
What is a Person-to-Person relationship.
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Key contributor who asserted that core concerns of existential psychodynamics are: death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness.
Who is Irvin Yalom. These four concerns form the body of existential psychotherapy and compose the framework in which a therapist conceptualizes a client's problem in order to develop a method of treatment.
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This movie chronicles Susanna Kaysen's 18-month stay at a mental institution in the 1960's. Film stars Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Brittany Murphy, and Whoopi Goldberg.
What is Girl, Interrupted?
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This is a product of engagement, which is a commitment to creating, loving, working, and building relationships.
What is Meaning.
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This concern of existence presents conflict between groundlessness and desire for structure. It refers to the fact that humans are the authors of their own world.
What is Freedom.
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We expand our awareness through this. It involves the maturing of the personality to accept its own evanescence and allow space for true Self to reveal itself.
What are Realizations. We have the potential and the choice to act or not to act. Meaning is not automatic, it is something that we must seek.