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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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  2. 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).

  3. 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 personsrelations with others (see Rank 1936, cited under Close Relationships ).

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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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  6. 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 ...

  7. 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.

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  8. Nov 1, 2023 · Meta-analyses show that some existential therapies (particularly meaning-centred therapies) have large positive effects on psychological and physical well-being and overall quality-of-life. Discussion. A large body of empirical literature supports the key therapeutic existential concepts, competences, and outcomes.