(Mori, 2012)
(Levine,2013)
Contemporary Founders: Victor Frankl (1905-1995), Rollo May (1909-1994), Irvin Yalom (born 1931)
Key Concepts: The View of Human Nature from an existential therapist is more of a way of thought that therapist and counselors can use in their daily life and work. Existential thinkers concentrate on six dimensions of the human condition which include 1) self-awareness, 2) freedom and responsibility, 3) discovering one's identity and establishing meaningful relationships with others, 4) the search for meaning, purpose, values, and goals, 5) anxiety is normal and a daily part of life, and 6) awareness of death and non being (Corey, 2009).
Goals of Therapy: The main goal is to teach clients that they have choices over their life no matter the situation. Exploring themes like mortality, meaning, freedom, responsibility, anxiety, and being alone in a persons current life (Corey,2009). Helping clients realize they are not living authentic lives and helping them realize their meaning in this world. Schneider and Krug 2010 (as cited by Corey, 2009) identify four essential aims of existential-humanistic therapy; helping clients become more present to both themselves and others, to assist clients in identifying ways they block themselves from fuller presence, to challenge clients to assume responsibility for designing their present lives, and to encourage clients to choose more expanded ways of being in their daily lives.
Key Terms: Existential analysis, logotherapy, existential tradition, inauthenticity, freedom, existential guilt, authenticity, existential vacuum, existential anxiety, normal anxiety, neurotic anxiety, restricted existence.
Existential therapy places central prominence on the person-to-person relationship. Assuming that clients grow through this genuine encounter. It is not the techniques a therapist uses that make a therapeutic difference; rather, it is the quality of the client-therapist relationship that heals. It is essential that therapists reach sufficient depth and openness in their own lives to allow them to venture into their clients' subjective world without losing their own sense of identity. Presence is both a condition for therapy to occur and a goal of therapy (Corey,2009).
Justin Rock explains existential therapy very nicely in the following video...
Resources
Corey, G. (2009). Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy. (9 ed., pp. 137-171). Belmont, CA: BROOKS/COLE CENGAGE Learning.
Levine, K. (Photographer). (2013). http://emotionalfitnesstraining.com/2013/01/31/the-choice-is-yours-always-2/. [Web Graphic]. Retrieved from http://emotionalfitnesstraining.com/2013/01/31/the-choice-is-yours-always-2
Rock, J. (2011, March 29). What is existential therapy? - portland grief and loss existential therapist justin . Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLhqj878k4Q
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