* Their behavior is frequently uptight, intense, judgmental, and intolerant or shy, self-effacing, and inclined to self-condemnation.
* They tend to think that if there is one bad apple, the whole bushel must be rotten. They tend to magnify and exaggerate evils.
* They confuse what they would like to have with what they believe they absolutely need. They are demanding and exacting.
EXISTENTIAL-HUMANISTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
For individuals who suffer from feelings of
acute loneliness and emptiness, who have lost
faith in themselves or others, and who tend to
be analytical and introverted.
There is no single, well-defined theory accepted by most existential therapists. Instead, existential psychotherapy is a point of view, a general philosophy that attempts to describe what it means to be human and to live meaningfully in the world.
There is, nevertheless, a consensus among existential therapists concerning the objectives of the approach. Existential therapy seeks to help clients achieve these goals:
* to accept and make constructive use of their own personal freedom
* to become authentic individuals, shedding the conventions and conformities that obscure the real persons they are
* to establish human relationships based on honesty and personal integrity
* to be fully present in the immediacy of the moment