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PSY 4140 Week 3 Existential Therapy
Exam Study Guide
We are what we choose to be - answer A basic existential premise is that we are not victims of circumstance because, to a large extent:
Existentialism - answer A philosophical movement stressing individual responsibility for creating one's ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
Yalom - answer Who founded existential therapy?
Kierkegaard - answer Creative anxiety, despair, fear and dread, guilt, and nothingness
Nietzsche - answer Death, suicide, and will
Heidegger - answer Authentic being, caring, death, guilt, individual responsibility, and isolation
Sartre - answer Meaninglessness, responsibility, and choice.
Buber - answer Interpersonal relationships, I/Thou perspective in therapy, and self-transcendence
Angst - answer A Danish and German word whose meaning lies between the English words dread and anxiety. This term refers to the uncertainty in life and the role of anxiety in making decisions about how we want to live.
Existential analysis (Daseinanalysis) - answer The emphasis of this therapy approach is on the subjective and spiritual dimensions of human existence.
Life-changing psychotherapy - answer The effort to help clients examine how they have answered life's existential questions and to invite them to revise their answers so they can live more authentically.
Existential-humanistic - answer From an _____________ perspective, resistance manifests as a failure to be fully present both during the therapy hour and in life.
Existential tradition - answer Seeks a balance between recognizing the limits and the tragic dimensions of human existence and the possibilities and opportunities of human life.
Self-awareness - answer The capacity for consciousness that enables us to make choices.
(1) the capacity for self-awareness; (2) freedom and responsibility; (3) creating one's
identity and establishing meaningful relationships with others; (4) the search for meaning, purpose, values, and goals; (5) anxiety as a condition of living; and (6) awareness of death and nonbeing. - answer The basic dimensions of the human condition
Inauthenticity - answer Lacking awareness of personal responsibility and passively assuming that our existence is largely controlled by external forces.
Freedom - answer An inescapable aspect of the human condition; we are the authors of our lives and therefore are responsible for our destiny and accountable for our actions.
Existential guilt - answer The result of, or the consciousness of, evading the commitment to choosing for ourselves.
Authenticity - answer The process of creating, discovering, or maintaining the core deep within one's being; the process of becoming the person one is capable of becoming.
Intersubjectivity - answer The fact of our interrelatedness with others and the need for us to struggle with this in a creative way.
Existential neurosis - answer Feelings of despair and anxiety that result from inauthentic living, a failure to make choices, and avoidance of responsibility.
Existential vacuum - answer A condition of emptiness and hollowness that results from meaninglessness in life.
Logotherapy - answer Developed by Frankl, this brand of existential therapy literally means "healing through reason." It focuses on challenging clients to search for meaning in life.
Existential anxiety - answer An outcome of being confronted with the four givens of existence: death, freedom, existential isolation, and meaninglessness.
Normal anxiety - answer An appropriate response to an event being faced.
Neurotic anxiety - answer A response out of proportion to the situation. It is typically out of awareness and tends to immobilize the person.
Restricted existence - answer A state of functioning with a limited degree of awareness of oneself and being vague about the nature of one's problems.
