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Flashcards by Shruti Mohite, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Shruti Mohite
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| Question | Answer |
| Logotherapy | Logotherapy is a term derived from “logos,” a Greek word that translates as “meaning,” and therapy, which is defined as treatment of a condition, illness, or maladjustment. Developed by Viktor Frankl, the theory is founded on the belief that human nature is motivated by the search for a life purpose; logotherapy is the pursuit of that meaning for one’s life. |
| Ultimate Concerns of the Human Condition | 1. Inevitability of death 2. Isolation 3. Meaninglessness 4. Freedom and responsibility |
| Existential Anxiety | It is viewed as an inevitable part of the human condition. Existential Anxiety is a deep feeling of unease that arises from our awareness of the givens; our existence is finite, we are mortal, and there is no purpose but the ones we create foe ourselves |
| Depression | It often is a result of efforts to defend against existential guilt and anxiety and avoid the task of making our lives meaningful. |
| Dasein | The term dasein acknowledges that human beings exists, have consciousness and are responsible for their own existence. |
| Ways of being | 1. Unwelt – the natural world around us. 2. Mitwelt-refers to being in the world with other people. 3. Eigenwelt- is our own subjective world. 4. Uberwelt- is the domain of experience where people create meaning for them and make sense of the world. |
| Authenticity | Authenticity has been described as “living the kind of life that is freely chosen and not dictated by the values of others. In such a life, one’s own feelings, values and interpretations act as a guide for conduct”. |
| Freedom and Responsibility | Freedom can be viewed as consisting of four aspects: awareness, choice, action, and change. Once people accept that they have freedom, no matter what their circumstances are, they have the responsibility. |
| Making Meaning | Meaning is the purpose and logic of our lives and often is reflected in choices people make. |
| Actualization | Actualization is an important concept for existential therapists. Abraham Maslow advanced the idea that, each person has an essential nature, part of which is universal and part of which is unique to that individual. |
| Symbolic growth experience | It is the conscious recognition and interpretation of the symbolic dimensions of an immediate experience leading to heightened awareness, discovery of meaning, and personal worth. |
| Paradoxical intention | In this, clinicians encourage clients to do or wish for the very thing they fear most. |
| Dereflection | Dereflection is a type of paradoxical intervention that is based on “two essential qualities of human existence, namely man’s capacities of self- transcendence and self- detachment”. |
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