PER PSY

• Under conditions for psychological/therapeutic growth

  Counselor Congruence - to be congruent means to be real or genuine, to be whole or integrated, to be what one truly is.
• Conditions for psychological/therapeutic growth

  Unconditional positive regards - exists when the therapist accepts and prizes the client without conditions or qualifications.
• Conditions for psychological/therapeutic growth

  Empathic Listening - exists when therapists accurately sense the feelings of their clients and are able to communicate these perceptions so that clients know that another person has entered their world of feelings without prejudice, projection, or evaluation.
• Person of tomorrow


  • More adaptable and flexible in their thinking
  • Open to their experiences, accurately symbolizing them in awareness rather than denying or distorting them
  • Tendency to live fully in the moment, experiencing a constant state of fluidity and change
  • Confident of their own ability to experience harmonious relations with others
  • More integrated, more whole, with no artificial boundary between conscious processes and unconscious ones
  • Basic trust of human nature
  • Enjoy a greater richness in life than do other people
• Basic Concepts of Existentialism

  Being-in-the-world - the basic unity of person and environment. It is expressed in the German word Dasein, meaning to exist there. The hypens in this term imply a oneness of subject and object, of person and world. Many people suffer from anxiety and despair brought on by their alienation from themselves or from their world.
• 3 modes of being-in-the-world

  1. Umwelt - the environment around us
  2. Mitwelt - our relationships with other people
  3. Eigenwelt - our relationships with our self
• Basic Concepts of Existentialism

  Nonbeing - nothingness like death. “Death is the one fact of my life which is not relative but absolute, and my awareness of this gives my existence and what I do each hour an absolute quality” (May, 1958)
• Forms of Love

  1. Sex - a biological function that can be satisfied through sexual intercourse or some other release of sexual tension.
  2. Eros - a psychological desire that seeks procreation or creation through an enduring union with a loved one.
  3. Philia - intimate nonsexual friendship between two people which can also lead to erotic relationships.
  4. Agape - esteem for the other, the concern for the other’s welfare beyond any gain that one can get out of it; disinterested love.
• A form of love, from May, that is a biological function that can be satisfied through sexual intercourse or some other release of sexual tension.

  Sex
• A form of love that is psychological desire that seeks procreation or creation through enduring union with a loved one.

  Eros
• A form of love that is the intimate nonsexual friendship between two people which can also lead to erotic relationships.

  Philia
• A form of that that is the esteem for the other, the concern for the other's welfare beyond any gain that one can get out of it; disinterested love.

  Agape
• Existential freedom


  This is the freedom to act on the choices that one make.
• Essential freedom


  This is the freedom of being.