scholarly journals POST-SOVIET EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY: MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF A. ALEKSEICHIKS INTENSIVE THERAPEUTIC LIFE METHOD

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donata Petruzyte
Keyword(s):  
Existential Psychotherapy

Existential Psychotherapy—An Interpretation

1969 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-85
Author(s):  
S. Sunder Das
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Existential Psychotherapy ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Positive Valence

In existential psychotherapy, the client is treated as a Gestalt and attempts are made to raise his self-awareness at the same time encouraging him to sample pleasurable and unpleasurable experiences. Man's positive valence towards others, the love Gestalt, qualitatively the same in all human relationships, is seen to differ only in its emphasis. Mental illness is seen as a lack of awareness of aspects of this Gestalt and psychotherapy as restoring this awareness, as also the appropriate emphasis. Authentic behaviour patterns are achieved as a result of rehearsals of existential modes.

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