Existenthial therapy
...ble for their actual existence. However existentialists have an optimism of hope of the potential that people will transcend inevitabilities of death (awareness for each of us and the ones we love), authenticity & intimacy, freedom of responsibility as we please, self-actualization, and making meaning or sense of our lives. The existentialist emphasizes the importance of experiencing the unity of self and world. In therapy, the person learns how to integrate the paradoxes around these issues, and thereby increase tolerance of the tension that may be associated with them. Personal responsibility and choice is emphasized, and focus is more here-and-now rather than on historical origins. Essentially the therapy is therefore to increase conscious awareness, which is key point in becoming healthier and fully functioning. Existentialist balances the warmth and optimism of humanism by including evil, tragedy, and death in their analysis. Although existentialist tackle many of the same problems addressed by psychoanalysis, and humanist, they do so from the broadest perspective possible. Whereas the humanistic therapy is acceptance and growth, the major themes of existential therapy are client responsibility and freedom. For the existential therapist, life is much more of a confrontation with negative internal forces than it is for the humanistic therapist. I feel the theories presented by existianlist give some level of convincing logic to its degree, for instance “anxiety about nothingness” and the “terror of death” as not sexual libido could be the compelling force behind all human existence. Decisively, some theories of existentialist are pessimistically concluded that existence is illogical or absurd. Others such as Rollo May resolve and integrate such absurdities with the positi...