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Jan 1, 2020 · To a significant extent, existential psychotherapy is the psycho-philosophical treatment par excellence of postmodern nihilism, anxiety, and existential crisis manifesting as depression, stress, addiction, anger, rage, and other all-too-ubiquitous symptomatology. Viennese psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s idea of neurosis resulting from an ...
- Stephen A. Diamond
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Dec 15, 2022 · Abstract. Difficulty in the experience of meaning has been both theoretically and empirically linked with depression. This cross-sectional study first aimed to replicate the association between difficulty in meaning experience and depression in a sample of 77 psychotherapists and counselors (77.1% females; Mage: 49; SDage = 12.25).
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Mar 2, 2021 · As the name implies, existential depression is perhaps a depressive state caused by one's hopelessness, fear, or uncertainty about the existential issues we face in the human...
Existential pathways are introduced as a way to illustrate a more coherent and comprehensive definition of existential anxiety, as well as a mechanism to understand the associated cognitions, emotions, behaviors, and motivations. 3 | EXISTENTIAL PATHWAYS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH DEATH ANXIETY 3.1 | Existential pathways
- David E. Reed, Rachel E. Williamson, Robert E. Wickham
- 2021
Nov 1, 2023 · Hundreds of studies indicate that a large majority of the general population actively searches for meaning and that the presence of meaning and meaning-oriented coping-styles is moderate to strongly correlated with a higher quality-of-life, lower levels of psychological-stress such as depression and anxiety, and better physical well-being ...
Abstract. An ethnically diverse sample of 143 college undergraduates was used to test the hypothesis that a sense of existential meaning buffers against the effect of stress on depression and hope. Spiritual meaning as measured by the Spiritual Meaning Scale and personal meaning as measured by the framework subscale from the Life Regard Index ...
Jul 24, 2014 · Existential psychotherapy is one of the longest-established forms of psychological intervention, but the scope and nature of the intervention remains unclear. To deepen an understanding of the nature of existential psychotherapy, an international survey was conducted of existential practitioners, asking them to identify the authors and texts that had most influenced their practice. Responses ...
