SUMMARY OF EXISTENTIAL THERAPY
The focus of this therapy is on the focus of existence. It emphasizes hope and optimism as well as despair and nothingness.
The therapist is grounded to subjective experience of encountering the client. The emphasis is on the sensitive presence that puts personal needs aside and centers exclusively on the client.
Therapist may use advocacy, empathy, concern, reflection, action, environmental modification or support.
The aim of the therapy is that the patient experience his existence as real. Therapist goals are to stimulate the patients willingness to work through pain, to help the individual reach a point at which awareness and decision making can be exercised responsibly.
Logo therapy means providing or experiencing healing through meaning. It has several techniques such as paradoxical intention, dereflection and modification of attitudes.
