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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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Aug 12, 2022 · Empirical studies have found that existential isolation relates to a variety of mental health concerns (e.g., depression, suicide ideation), cultural factors (e.g., collectivism), and interpersonal factors (e.g., insecure attachment style, minority status).
Apr 13, 2023 · This suggests that some sources of existential meaning may confer a greater protective benefit than others, and poses a potentially important avenue of study in the relationship between meaninglessness and BPD pathology.
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 17, 2020 · An account of existential theory is set out above, as applied by influential theorists, and a brief account of a phenomenological approach is provided in this section. In a phenomenological research approach, the researcher might mirror the participant’s movements, as that participant reexperiences their bodily memory of what they did in a ...
- Simon Wharne
- 2021
Placing Existential Psychology in Context: Height Psychology Goes Deeper Than Depth Psychology. The two theorists highlighted in this chapter were truly extraordinary individuals. Both Viktor Frankl (who coined the term “height psychology”) and Rollo May were well immersed in existential thought and its application to psychology when they ...
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 ).
Nov 1, 2023 · Aim. This article aims to give an overview of the empirical literature on existential therapies. This article will be divided into four parts: empirical research on existential practices, key concepts, critical therapeutic competences, and outcomes of existential therapies.
