Humanistic existential approach.txt

humans are fundamentally good

human beings create their own life meanings; phenomenological

a person must be utterly in the moment, .... you begin to own your own life

emphasiezes the personal worth of the individual and mportance of human values; our existence comes from our relations with others

I-thou, I-it

people encouraged to realize their inner potentials, uses group meetings, self-disclosure and introspection

atheistic mystic

Love (allows us to overcome isolation while remaining individual, loving is an art, modern society encourages existential alienation)

reconciles bio driven side of humans and pressure of societal structure; believes people can ranscend these forces through free will

studiesd in seminary, became child psychologist, influenced by adler, emphasized taking personal responsibility for one's own life

people have tendency toward growth and maturation; becoming one's self, people must strive to take responsibility for themselves

the process of the good life is not, i am convinced, a life for the faint hearted it involves stretching and growing of becoming more and more of ones potentialitites. it involves the courage to be. it means launching oneswlf fully into the stream of life.

openness to experience, increasingly existential lifestyle, increasing organismic trust, freedom of choice, creativity, reliabiloity and constructiveness, a rich full life

rogerian psychotherapy.

person comes in, helping situation is defined, counselor encourages free expression, counselor accepts and regonizes and clarifies neg feelings, when neg feeligns expressed, followed by expressions of pos impulses which make for growth, counselor accepts and recogniszes pos feelings, there is insight understand of self, cstep of pos action along with decreasing need for help

supportive and nondirective, client oriented, provide client with unconditional pos regard, provide empathetic understanding of clients internal frame of reference

importance of congruence (accurate self perception, accurate communication.

distortion and denial

anxiety triggered by threat to core values of existence, when anxious, we search for meaning of life.

imp of personal choice, logotherapy (CHOSING to find meaning of life); existential humanistic approaches and support groups

self actualization, inesteem, love/belonging, safety, physiological

people transcend the self become one with world, and feel completely self-fulfilled

interview, observation, proj tests, bio studies, personal orientation inventory (POI)(self repor questionnaire, captures some aspects of healthy personality)

experience things fully, life is ongiong process of choosing between safety and risk, let the self emerge, be honst, listen to own tastes, use yhour intelligence, make peak experiencing more likely, find out who you are, what you like and dont like, what is good and bad for you, where you are going, what your mission is.

how dare you be sane in a sane world/ anti=psychiatry

they are playing a game. they are playing at not playing a game. if i show them i see they are, i shall break the rules and they will punish me. i must play their game. of not seieing i see the game -Knots

who is happy?

explores pos forces of life. (hope creativity wisdom spirituality)

studies of wisdom and excellence in performance, escape focus on mental illness, pathological behavior, failures of motivation and control

society embodies progress, yet we are not more happy, progess comes with new set of problems.

alturism, fidelity, family, community, spirituality

contemporary confucious, taoism the way and its power

inherent order or property of the universe (the tao, wu (emptiness), wu-wei (nondoing), fu (the return of all things to their origins)

humans are free sentient beings seeking spiritual fullfilment

emphasizes struggle for self fullfillment, spiritual nature of person, healthy well-adjusted individuals, considers each individual's experience unique

avoid quantification and scientific method, insufficiently concerned with reason, theories are sometimes ambiguous or inconsistent

essential to being human

interview, self exploration, art, literature, bio analysis, special achievement, self-report tests, observation

encourage self-knowledge through experiences appropriate to individual. roger's clientcentered therapy offeres genuine, empathetic therapist who offers unconditional pos rgard.