6. Work as a Vocation Mature people will regard their profession as a vocation • Work is a response to responsibility an opportunity to make a worthwhile • → contribution to life 7. Appreciation of Beauty, Goodness and Truth Receptive to experiences of the good, the beautiful and the genuine • Deeply enjoy and appreciate art, literature, music and nature • Open to new experiences • Rogers Existential living • → Maslow zestful experience of life • → 8. Respect and Appreciation for the Uniqueness of Others use others to achieve own ends • Won’t Want meaningful encounters with others • No prejudice or discrimination • 9. Meaning in Suffering Mature people accept the factualities of life • This deepens their belief in the meaning of life • People who discover meaning in suffering have reached the highest peak of • development VIEWS ON PSYCHOPATHOLOGY 1. The Noogenic Neurosis People do not reach optimal development because they lack the courage to • respond tio the challenge of life becomes dulled Seek pleasure, power and position •Conscience → have an adroit busyness (speed mania) → Basic will to meaning becomes frustrated → Life becomes empty and meaningless. → Characteristics: •
6. Work as a Vocation • Mature people will regard their profession as a vocation • Work is a response to responsibility → an opportunity to make a worthwhile contribution to life 7. Appreciation of Beauty, Goodness and Truth • Receptive to experiences of the good, the beautiful and the genuine • Deeply enjoy and appreciate art, literature, music and nature • Open to new experiences • Rogers → Existential living • Maslow → zestful experience of life 8. Respect and Appreciation for the Uniqueness of Others • Won’t use others to achieve own ends • Want meaningful encounters with others • No prejudice or discrimination 9. Meaning in Suffering • Mature people accept the factualities of life • This deepens their belief in the meaning of life • People who discover meaning in suffering have reached the highest peak of development VIEWS ON PSYCHOPATHOLOGY 1. The Noogenic Neurosis • People do not reach optimal development because they lack the courage to respond tio the challenge of life •Conscience becomes dulled → Seek pleasure, power and position → have an adroit busyness (speed mania) → Basic will to meaning becomes frustrated → Life becomes empty and meaningless. • Characteristics: