Existential Therapy

What is Existential Therapy?

• Existential therapy is more a way of thinking, or an attitude about psychotherapy

• Existential therapy is a particular style of practicing psychotherapy

• Existential therapy can best be described as a philosophical approach that influences a counselor’s therapeutic practice

• Existential therapy uses psychoanalytic principles and techniques

Select Key Figures in Existential Psychotherapy

• Viktor Frankl

• Sigmund Freud

• Alfred Adler

• Rollo May

• Irvin Yalom

Which of these are Propositions on Existential Therapy's view on Human Nature?

• The Capacity for Self Awareness

• Freedom and Responsibility

• Striving for Identity and Relationship to Others

• The Search for Meaning

• Anxiety as a Condition of Living