Characteristics Of Existential Therapy

This paper will review the methodology and ideals of the existential therapy type as well as reviewing how the methodology will affect a client named Stan in his mid-thirties. The existential therapy type’s main points and core aspects will be examined and explained then they will be explained in relation to Stan and his metal problems. During this it will also be revealed how existential therapy will be useful for each of Stan’s major issues and what the best outcome for Stan will be after psychotherapy from the existential perspective. Finally the condition of point of view that the existential therapy will leave Stan – if successful- will also be discussed and reviewed with what this perspective does and how it achieves giving Stan a new

Stan suffers from: immense anxiety, a fear of socializing, a fear of woman in general as well as intimate lovers, alcoholism, suicidal thoughts, and has been emotional abused several times. Despite the former Stan has mentioned that he would like to be able to: get closers with people especially women, feel happy without having to drink, not need alcohol to cope in social situations. So, Stan has a desire to change his self-destructive tendencies and has already started to do so by going to college on his own. Now this paper will focus on showing how existential psychology will be of use to Stan in each of his problem areas and in helping him to achieve the goals he has set. Existential psychotherapy focuses on investigating concepts such as rectitude, sense, independence, liability, apprehensiveness, and solitary as they delineate to the person’s present struggles (Corey 2015). Each of the themes in the human condition that are listed in the description have a connection with Stan. The rectitude is

Each of them made him feel like he was less of a man just wife even emasculated him in the bedroom and made him feel useless and worthless as a lover. His mother would always emasculate his father and he was constantly compared to his older siblings that did better in school than he did. (Corey 2015). Existential therapy makes it to where the client experiences their own self as huge and more powerful point within their life and makes it to where instabilities created by former issues and ideals will be reduced when therapy is effective (Bauman 1998). The challenging of Stan’s passiveness in his own life is what will eventually lead him to realize that he is truly a man and that he defines that for himself using his freedom because the human condition defines the purpose of life for oneself so being a man; Stan can define it however he would like to. Which means at any point that Stan assumes responsibility in his life again he can define himself as a man once more and then no others can strip him of that title because in his existence he chooses to be it. Then once Stan does reach that point and determine that he is once again in control of his own independence and his selections in his life he can start working towards a connection with a woman that he will be able to foster into an intimate relationship and finally achieve his last goal. This is because two points of