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Existential
Persons responsible for developing - ANSin US Rollo May, Irvin Yalom; in UK Emmy van
Deurzen-Smith; Victor Frankl
Focus of Existential therapy - ANStherapists focus on patient's subjective experience; exploring
themes such as mortality, meaning, freedom, responsibility, anxiety, and aloneness as these
relate to a person's current struggle.
Goal of existential therapy: - ANSassist clients in their exploration of the existential "givens of
life", how these are sometimes ignored or denied, and how addressing them can ultimately lead
to a deeper, more reflective and meaningful existence. To expand self-awareness, to increase
choice potentials, to help clients accept responsibility for choosing, and to help the client
experience authentic existence.
Functions of therapist Existential: - ANS"fellow traveler" "we are all in this together" someone
just like us who has no judgment or opinion about our existence
Core tenets of therapy existential : - ANSCentral issue is freedom and responsibility. The I-Am
experience, normal and neurotic anxiety, guilt and guilt feelings, the three forms of world,
significance of time, our human capacity to transcend the immediate situation.
Existential therapy rests on six key propositions - ANS1) We have the capacity for
self-awareness. (2) Because we are basically free beings, we must accept the responsibility that
accompanies our freedom. (3) We have a concern to preserve our uniqueness and identity; we
come to know ourselves in relation to knowing and interacting with others. (4) The significance
of our existence and the meaning of our life are never fixed once and for all; instead, we
re-create ourselves through our projects. (5) Anxiety is part of the human condition. (6) Death is
also a basic human condition, and awareness of it gives significance to living.
Terms related to process existential - ANSumwelt (natural world), mitwelt (public world),
eigenwelt (private world), uberwelt (ideal world); logotherapy- Frankl, teaches that meaning in
life cannot be dictated but can only be discovered by searching in our own existential situation
persons responsible for the development Gestalt therapy: - ANSFrederick Perls and Laura Perls
types of theory Gestalt therapy - ANShighlights more the process (what is taking place) and not
the content (what is said about it). The stress is on what is happening, considered and felt right
now rather than on what took place, might, could or should happen.
, focus of therapy Gestalt? - ANSSelf-delusion is the reason for inauthenticity: living not based on
the real facts about oneself in the world brings to feelings of fear, guilt and concern. Gestalt
therapy gives the patient authenticity and meaningful responsibility. Becoming aware, the
person can choose and arrange his existence with a meaningful approach.
functions of the Gestalt Therapist? - ANSThe Gestalt therapist is occupied with involving the
client into dialogue rather than by means of manipulation aimed to reach certain therapeutic
goal. The signs of this contact are simple caring, warm attitude, approval and self-responsibility.
As therapists lead patients to certain aim, the clients cannot be responsible for their
development and self-support.
Gestalt core tenets of therapy? - ANS1. Existential dialogue is an important part of methodology
in Gestalt therapy. It demonstrates the existential perspective on relationship.
Relationship develops out of contact.
2.Gestalt therapy assists patients to build up their support for preferred contact or withdrawal.
3. The Gestalt therapist is occupied with involving the client into dialogue rather than by means
of manipulation aimed to reach certain therapeutic goal.
Inclusion in Gestalt therapy - ANSThis is immersion into the experience of the person without
judgment, analysis or interpretation while maintaining a sense of one's detached, independent
presence at the same time.
Presence in Gestalt therapy - ANSThe Gestalt therapist opens him or herself up to the patient.
Remarks, fondness, feelings, private experience and opinions are expressed on a regular basis,
sensibly, and with discrimination. The therapist shares her perspective by modeling
phenomenological reporting, which aids the patient's learning about trust and use of immediate
experience to raise awareness.
Commitment to dialogue. Gestalt - ANSContact means something deeper than just something
two persons do to each other.
Dialogue is lived Gestalt - ANSDialogue is closer to action rather than words. "Lived" stresses
the enthusiasm and closeness of doing.
Gestalt Goal of therapy - ANSThe goal of Gestalt therapy is to raise clients' awareness
regarding how they function in their environment (with family, at work, school, friends). The
focus of therapy is more on what is happening (the moment-to-moment process) than what is
being discussed (the content). Awareness is being alert to what are the most important events in
clients' lives and their environment with full sensorimotor, emotional, cognitive, and energy
support. Support is defined as
Awareness Gestalt - ANSGestalt counseling is a form of therapy that focuses on patients
becoming self-aware.