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Apr 22, 2020 · It is the task of the present chapter to demonstrate the manner in which Sartre’s existential psychoanalysis was received by American psychology in the 1950s and 1960s. We will argue that Sartre’s own form of analysis, developed most explicitly toward the...
- Cameron Bassiri, Matthew Senie
- 2020
Dec 4, 2023 · Existential psychology is a method of psychological research and psychotherapy that has existentialism and phenomenological philosophy as its theoretical foundation, psychoanalysis as its technical precondition, and psychotherapy as the means. It is also known as existential psychoanalysis.
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Nov 6, 2017 · Despite different emphases, existential perspectives see the human essence as characterized by three qualities: (1) the uniqueness of the human species and the individual; (2) the indissolubility of the person and the situation; and (3) the ubiquity of freedom and threat in human experience.
- Embracing Suffering
- Skepticism of Traditional Objectivist Methods
- Rejecting The Calculus of Well-Being
Existential psychologists are often critical of positive psychology for what they take to be its systemic failure to acknowledge the centrality of suffering in human existence and the possibility that suffering holds for the creation of a life of genuine meaning (see, e.g., Jacobsen 2007; van Deurzen 2009; see also Frankl 1965). In turn, positive p...
Clearly, studying the conditions and meaning of human flourishing, happiness, and suffering from an existentialist perspective requires a far greater willingness to entertain and legitimize an explicitly philosophical outlook and approach than is commonly the case in mainstream psychology. Indeed, one of the principle ways in which existential psyc...
Finally, as noted earlier, positive psychology not only positions itself as the scientific study of optimal human functioning, but also “aims to discover and promote the factors that allow individuals and communities to thrive” (Sheldon 2011, p. 427; italics added). Here too, however, the existential perspective stands in stark contrast to that of ...
- Edwin E. Gantt, Jeffrey L. Thayne
- 2014
Keywords: psychotherapy integration, humanism, existentialism. Like a Ninja, dressed by the shades of the natural environment, the humanistic-existential movement has infiltrated not only the fortress of clinical psychology, but also mainstream aca-demic psychology in general and has assumed a quiet, albeit steadfast, control.
Dreikurs (9) isolates several tenets from Adlerian psychology and finds a model that includes all the characteristic assumptions of existential analysis which made their impact felt in America.
ABSTRACT. This article surveys the background and theory of the existential-phenomenological approach to psychology, with a particular focus on its reception in the United States. The article begins with a discussion of what exactly existential-phenomenological psychology is, including the theories underlying this approach and its basic practices.
