Existential Psychotherapy is the only branch of psychotherapy that emphasizes on intricate subjective conditions that influence our behavior. Krug, 2009, said that existentialism aims to understand people as spiritual beings in the world who make their physical, psychological, social, and interpersonal reality from their own life experiences. According to him, and other eminent contributors of existentialism, there are four basic dimensions in human life that is responsible for all emotions, and
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Assignment: Letter to a European Philosopher PHI/105 Dear Soren Kierkegaard, I have read your profile and philosophical views on several subjects in the Moore-Bruder, (2008) AXIA Reading Material Handbook. I have two arguments that I would like to present to you on your philosophical views and choices you make to please a God that is not proven to exist. First I would like to talk about the agony of choices you made between your God and the woman you were going to marry named Regine Olsen. The
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Realism in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Churchill’s Top Girls Nineteen-century Europe held rigid conventionalisms of class division, social order and gender roles. Society hid behind the mask of hypocrisy in an attempt to preserve bourgeoisie’s position of power. In that concern, conceptions of ‘liberty of the spirit’[1] and ‘liberty of thought and of the human condition’[2] came to question. Thus, Henrik Ibsen drew attention to the threat to ideas of freedom and public opinion by giving life to
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human lives and emphasizes the subjective realties of individual existence, individual freedom, and individual choice. Runaway by Kanye West is a great example of this philosophical theory and many connections can be made to his work and the work of Soren Kierkegaard, Franz Kafka, and Albert Camus. These four artists apply existentialist themes in their literature and even their private lives. The two themes that I found preeminent in these artists work are isolation and death. The four artists have
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Soren Kierkegaard’s quote on Soulmates I feel like a lot of people want to find their soulmate but don’t realize that it’s not easy to find your other half. You will not know who your other half is until you have time away from your other half. In my opinion, your other half is found after a long time away from each other. You must accept, know and love yourself before another can accept, know and love you. When you are in love with your other half it’s not all about the love, it’s about being
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the therapist and most importantly it highlights the client’s personal freedom in deciding their own direction. 0 Some of the key figures regarding existential psychotherapy are Rollo May, Irvin Yalom, Martin Heidegger, Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Viktor Frankl, Jean-Paul Sartre (Van Deurzen, 2012, May, 1969, Cox, 2012) 0 Some of the basic concepts of extentialism are freedom and responsibility, isolation, meaninglessness, nothingness
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The term Existentialism is the idea that the individual controls their own choices and destiny compared to believing in a higher being. In other words, all the events that occur during an individual’s lifespan are caused by their own discretion. Terror Management Theory refers to how humans rely on self- esteem as a means of protection against the inevitable death (Harmon-Jones et al.1997, pg. 24). Terror Management Theory states that self-esteem plays a vital role in either enhancing or diminishing
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The existentialist theory of ethics believes that everyone is responsible for making themselves who they are, as explained by the famous philosopher Sartre – “’being precedes essence’: each human being makes himself what he is, creating, and recreating continually, himself and his world” (Rapport and Overing, 2003). Existentialism believes that the only issue is if you are in bad faith – the perception you give others is not who you truly are, your “being for self” and “being for others” are not
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Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish Philosopher that was very far ahead of his time on internal studies. The father of existentialism brought “The stages of life’s way” which is his interpretation of a human life’s stages through age, experience, and the journey to creating your true self. The three life stages are the Aesthetic, the Ethical, and the Religious. While you can easily move from an Aesthetic and living for personal passions into an Ethical who has more societal views of betterment; becoming
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Andrew Hall Faith and Critical Reasoning 12/10/2013 What is the Eschatological goal of existence? Since the beginning of human existence there has always been some type of battle about faith, belief, and the existence of god. When this class first began I didn’t know what to expect due to my own personal beliefs and spiritual upbringing, but as the course went on I was open to different views and ways to look at what has been taught for years. Even today there is still the constant battle
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