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- Existential psychology developed in an attempt to understand how people cope with the realities of existence. This includes how individuals think about themselves (e.g., self-awareness), how they relate to others, how they create a meaningful and satisfying life, and how they manage anxieties associated with the inevitability of death.
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Oct 25, 2018 · For example, Otto Rank was one of the first theorists to propose an existential perspective to understand human behavior by arguing for the existence of both life and death fears in human development and in persons’ relations with others (see Rank 1936, cited under Close Relationships ).
- Death
- Meaning
- Freedom
- Identity
Yalom (1980) argues awareness of one’s own death ultimately leads an individual toward a confrontation with their fundamental isolation and writes, “Each of us enters existence alone and must depart from it alone” (p. 9). Though a person may be surrounded by family and friends, though others may die at the same time or for the same cause, “at the m...
An existential framework suggests that humans live in an inherently meaningless and absurd world. Yet humans strive to create and maintain systems of meaning, which provide buttresses against existential angst. A confrontation with meaninglessness leads the individual to feel as though the world is chaotic and human endeavors are pointless (e.g., K...
The existential concern of freedom refers to the ability to choose one’s path at any moment (e.g., Sartre, 2001), leading humans to cope with the responsibility of self-creation. Awareness of authorship implies that others are therefore not responsible for one’s actions, and thus, one must contend with the isolation of self-creation (e.g., Yalom, 1...
The concern of identity refers to the inability to have full knowledge of oneself and arises through the courage to be part of groups or through affirmation processes. These processes reflect differences in personal and social identity (e.g., Castano et al., 2004). Personal identity refers to identification with the self, restricted to one’s body a...
Jan 1, 2020 · Existential psychology examines the central problems of being human, namely, our awareness of our mortality and impermanence and our search for meaning. This field relies heavily on applied philosophy and can be viewed as a theoretical and empirical expansion of that field.
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Oct 1, 2020 · PDF | This article surveys the background and theory of the existential-phenomenological approach to psychology, with a particular focus on its... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
Jul 22, 2021 · The concept of the Joyful Life may operate as bridge between positive psychology and humanistic, existential, and spiritual views of the good life, by integrating hedonic, prudential, eudaimonic and chaironic visions of the good life.
- Brent Dean Robbins
- 2021
Feb 7, 2024 · ABSTRACT. Existential concerns, such as autonomy and identity, are often overlooked although they play an important role in psychopathology and clinical practice. The aims of this study are to investigate how existential concerns relate to psychopathological symptoms and to identify important existential concerns.
As a method for embracing both nomothetic and idiographic dimensions of human experience, existential phenomenological research (EPR) draws on both the “pure” phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and the “existential” phenomenological work of Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
