Existential Quiz

Existential Psychotherapy Study Notes

• Question 1: Existential psychotherapy aims to increase self-awareness and help clients take responsibility for their choices and experience authentic existence.

• Question 2: Helping clients become more present to themselves and others, and identifying ways they block themselves from fuller presence are essential aims of existential-humanistic therapy.

• Question 3: Existential therapy is considered an approach to understanding the subjective world of the client.

• Question 4: Existentialists believe that individuals are responsible for their choices and can create anxiety through these choices.

• Question 5: Existential analysis, existential anxiety, self-awareness, and existential guilt are emphasized in existential therapy.

• Question 6: This question is not answered in the text.

• Question 7: Existential therapy works best when the client feels comfortable to engage in shame-attacking exercises and the therapist connects with the client's deepest self. The text doesn't imply that therapists should try to convince clients to get rid of their anxiety.

• Question 8: Existentialists believe relatedness to others is healthy when individuals develop self-reliance and stand alone.

• Question 9: The text lists creating our own value system, exploring unfinished business, discarding older values, and meaninglessness as things involved in the search for meaning. It does not include social interest.

• Question 10: Existential therapy views the therapy relationship as a microcosm of interpersonal and existential issues faced within the real world.

• Question 11: The capacity for self-awareness, striving for acceptance of others, and establishing meaningful relationships with others are fundamental dimensions of the human condition. Freedom and responsibility are also mentioned as core aspects of a person.

• Question 12: In existential therapy, working with a restricted existence client would likely involve exploring the developmental origins of those feelings.

• Question 13: Time-limited existential treatments can catalyze client engagement and participation, and the text suggests this is a hallmark of this form of therapy. This is different than lacking in depth or richness, or not having a defined structure.

• Question 14: Existential therapy utilizes highly developed techniques to foster authenticity.

• Question 15: Finding the "courage to be" involves confronting a phobia, learning to be alone, as well as developing one's own value system.

• Question 16: The characteristics of existential theme include freedom, responsibility, and examining irrational beliefs, as well as situations that produce anxiety.

• Question 17: Existentialists view death as contributing to the significance of living.

• Question 18: Existential practitioners prioritize free association and regard therapy as more about no defined set of techniques, than a structured one.

• Question 19: This question asks about Viktor Frankl's approach to existential therapy, which the provided text refers to as logotherapy.

• Question 20: One of the characteristics mentioned about Rollo May is that he is a spokesperson for the existential approach in the United States. He also translated European existentialism into American psychotherapeutic theory and practice.

• Question 21: The Danish philosopher associated with anxiety and uncertainty in life is Soren Kierkegaard.

• Question 22: According to Yalom, existential concerns include death and freedom.

• Question 23: Existential guilt for Sartre occurs with actions that do not align with a personally developed value system, or when we allow others to dictate our choices.

• Question 24: A therapist's presence as a condition for change is a key element in existential therapy. This presence involves meeting with the client to address their experience in life.

• Question 25: Being alone is a part of developing strength and self-reliance; it is not about rejecting connections with others.