Humanistic Therapies Flashcards

Flashcards about Humanistic Therapies - Existential Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Body Therapies, Focusing, Transactional Analysis, and Psychodrama.

What is the existential therapy view of life?

A path that individuals must traverse, encountering existential themes such as the search for meaning, solitude, freedom, and death.

Name some key figures associated with the history of existential therapy.

Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Karla Jaspers, Ludwing Binswanger, James Bugental, Medard Boss, Rollo May, Irving Yalom, Viktor Frankl, Laing and Cooper.

What are the three fundamental currents in existential therapy?

Terapia humanista-existencial, Análisis existencial, Logoterapia.

According to Binswanger (and Frankl), what are the four dimensions that constitute our world?

Biological, Social, Personal, and Spiritual.

According to Frankl, what are the three types of values that give meaning to life?

Experiential, Creative, and Attitudinal.

What are the two fundamental ways of existing, according to existential philosophy?

Descuido del ser (neglecting the self) and Cuidado del ser (caring for the self).

What are the primary objectives of existential therapy?

Reducing anxiety to tolerable levels, increasing awareness of existence, helping individuals realize they are free to choose, finding personal meanings and values, establishing healthy relationships, and developing authenticity.

Where was the humanistic-existential therapy developed?

Developed in the U.S.

Where was the existential analysis developed?

Developed in Europe

Who developed Logotherapy?

Viktor Frankl

What are the concepts in Logotherapy?

Responsibility, Conscience , and Attitude.

Who created the person-centered therapy?

Carl Rogers

What is the therapy style in person-centered therapy?

The therapist creates a facilitating climate where the client feels safe and validated.

What conditions are desirable for a person to be healthy according to person-centered therapy?

Openness to experience, living fully in each moment, trust in experience, and creativity.

What are the core conditions for therapeutic change in person-centered therapy?

Congruence, Positive Regard, and Empathic Understanding.

Who is the founder of Gestalt therapy?

Frederick Perls

What influences led to the creation of Gestalt therapy?

Psychology Gestalt, Psychoanalysis, Eastern Philosophies, and Humanistic Authors

What are the three objectives of Gestalt Therapy?

Increase awareness, Bring the past to the present, Help the person increase responsibility.

What are the boundaries or resistance to contact in Gestalt therapy?

Introjection, Projection, Retroflection, Confluence.

Who created Bioenergetics?

Alexander Lowen

What is the objective of Bioenergetics?

Re-establish the balance between mind and body.

What are the five types of character in Bioenergetics?

Schizoid, Oral, Psychopathic, Masochistic, and Rigid.

Who developed Focusing?

Eugene Gendlin.

What are the key components of the Six Steps of Focusing?

The six steps of focusing involve creating space, forming a felt sense, finding a handle, resonating, asking questions, and receiving.