Wednesday 22 July 2015

Existential Therapy and Logotherapy

Existential therapy, it seems, concentrates upon the anxiety (and guilt) that individuals feel about death, freedom, isolation and meaninglessness. (Nelson-Jones, 2001).[5]  The idea that death, and meaninglessness, is at the root of existential anxiety, comes from Heidegger, (as discussed in Magill, 1982).  (But Sartre sees existential anxiety as having nothing to do with death, but rather with self awareness in the gaze of the other, and the impossibility of a reunion between being-in-itself (which is comparable to Freud's id) and being-for-itself (which is roughly analogous to Freud's ego).[6])  Furthermore, existential anxiety seems to be defined in an unusual way, relative to "regular anxiety" about identifiable triggers.



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Existential Therapy and Logotherapy

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