But in the absence of dysfunction, major questions of “being” or “what exactly it means to be human” often find their academic place in the field of philosophy. However, the field of existential psychology combines the big questions of philosophy with the tenets of psychology.
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Referencing May, Trent Claypool, a PsyD student at the University of the Rockies in Colorado Springs, Colorado, said that the goal of psychotherapy from the existential perspective is to set people free.
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But that doesn’t mean that existential psychology denies the struggles and pain that individuals must confront. By definition, the term “existential” is often described as the “pains” of existence.
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Humanism rejected the assumptions of the behaviorist perspective which is characterized as deterministic, focused on reinforcement of stimulus-response behavior and heavily dependent on animal research.
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Existential psychologists believe that it’s not only important to identify and reduce the symptomatology of mental illnesses, addictions, relationship issues, and other psychological issues, but to go beyond the symptoms, addressing how a person defines meaning, purpose, and a life well lived.
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Humanistic, humanism and humanist are terms in psychology relating to an approach which studies the whole person, and the uniqueness of each individual. Essentially, these terms refer the same approach in psychology.
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Most areas of psychology attempt to understand how individuals “learn to be” in the world, trying, through psychotherapy, to correct dysfunctional or harmful ways of living that individuals have developed.
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Humanism is a psychological perspective that emphasizes the study of the whole person. Humanistic psychologists look at human behavior not only through the eyes of the observer, but through the eyes of the person doing the behaving. Sometimes the humanistic approach is called phenomenological.
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This process may be facilitated in a group setting, where additional aspects of problems are revealed through interaction with others. Kinds of humanistic existential psychotherapy are client-centered therapy, existential therapy, and Gestalt therapy. Also called existential humanistic psychotherapy.
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Both humanistic and existential theories place emphasis on the importance of individual choice. Freedom of choice empowers individuals. This is considered one of the greatest strengths of the humanistic-existential model. When a client feels empowered, that person becomes invested in his or her treatment. Behaviorists see the client as a victim of his or her environment. Psychoanalysts see the client as a victim of his or her childhood. Humanistic-existentialists see the client as someone in search of personal fulfillment. Ironically, what many proponents of the humanistic-existential model claim as strengths, opponents also point to as weaknesses.
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Humanistic existential psychotherapy are client-centered therapy, existential therapy, and Gestalt therapy.