Existential therapy can best be described as a philosophical approach that influences a counselor’s therapeutic practice. Existential psychotherapy is neither an independent nor separate school of therapy, nor is it a neatly defined model with specific techniques. It is more appropriate to refer to existential psychotherapies. Historical Background in Philosophy: Existential therapy was not founded by any particular person or group; many streams of thought contributed to it. Drawing from a major orientation in philosophy; existential therapy arose spontaneously in different parts of Europe and among different schools of psychology and psychiatry in the 1940s and 1950s. It grew out of an effort to help people resolve the dilemmas of contemporary life, such as isolation, alienation, and meaninglessness. Early writers focused on the individual’s experience of being alone in the world and facing the anxiety of the situation. These are some of the major f...
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