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Oct 1, 2020 · 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...
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Existential psychology is a branch of psychology that...
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Social and personality psychologists traditionally have...
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- Life Feeling
- Life Energy (Vitality)
- Box 1.1 Three Basic Life Concepts
- THE BIG QUESTIONS OF LIFE
- The Basic Life Conditions Seen as Life Dilemmas
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Sometimes you are flooded with a poignant sensation of really being alive. At other times you feel tired, heavy, bored or dead. Most people have a strong preference for the sense of being alive, so it should be interesting to explore what characterises such life-world situations. In an interview study conducted by the author, a number of people wer...
Among the seriously ill, we encounter a phenomenon that nobody can explain. A doctor may have two patients with the same ailment, a fatal disease. They have the disease in approximately the same degree and the doctor’s prognosis is that they both have about six months left to live. Subsequently, one patient fades and dies quickly, while the other p...
Life feeling is the person’s spontaneous sense of being alive, being coherent and sensing a right to be here. Life courage is the person’s life feeling combined with their determination to conquer fear and anxiety in order to carry out their life project. Life energy or vitality is the ability of the organism to survive even under difficult circums...
Some animals seem to live an easy life. A dog or a cat, for example, may spend its whole life eating, sleeping, wandering about, looking, listening, mating and resting. The life of an animal is a life without problems (although life for some animals is periodically unpleasant or momentarily painful). It is a life without reflections on life. Human ...
The basic categories of life conditions proposed by Irvin Yalom, Medard Boss, Erich Fromm and related scholars share many traits. The differences between them are not contradictory in nature, they are in fact supplementary (Jacobsen, 2003). Irvin Yalom’s four categories form the core of this book’s structure, but I have expanded them to include dim...
Focuses on essential life dilemmas and the big questions of life Emphasises both the positive and negative dimensions of life Applies mainly phenomenological research methods (studying human life from within).
Focuses on human potentialities and virtues Emphasises the positive dimensions of life Applies mainly phenomenological research methods (studying human life from within).
Focuses on human potentialities and virtues Emphasises the positive dimensions of life Applies mainly natural science research methods (studying human life from without).
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Existential psychology and positive psychology share much in their history and value system. Since their inception, both have been critical of the excessive focus on pathologizing and dysfunction in mainstream psychology. Although they focus their critique and emergent alternatives differently, meaning is a central concept in both positive ...
grative perspective that seeks to understand the functional mechanisms that underlie human motivation and personality processes. Together with Constantine Sedikides, he was guest
This list comprises pioneering existential psychologists and psychiatrists as well as some of the most influential existential philosophers and other existential thinkers, primarily from this century; focusing on the existential-psychological aspects of their thinking.
