Love's Executioner

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Not only existential psychotherapy and psychodynamic therapy but all other psychotherapeutic approaches such as cognitive therapy, existential cognitive, and so forth, are all relative therapies and there is little to contrast between these psychotherapies (Bateman, Pedder, and Brown, p. I will then discuss this theme in the context of the works of two of the major existential psychotherapists noted in the readings. According to them, both the existential psychotherapy and psychodynamic and neuro linguistic psychotherapy placed the importance attached to relation. In a cry for help and to gain his attention she attempted a drug overdose which was successfully scuppered by her husband Harry. Her self-esteem has improved and also her anxiety, hypochondriacal tendencies and her tendency for obsession and psychotic behaviour.

Thelma has suffered chronic depression and has been in psychiatric treatment almost continuously for 20 years. If you need assistance with writing your essay, our professional essay writing service is here to help! Sterman emphasized that NLP assist-therapist to be more effective by identifying the client’s favored representational system as a means to enhance communication and elicit information (p. They confirmed Cohn’s findings that dynamic psychotherapy had begun with Freud and psychoanalysis (p. Anthony Bateman, Jonathan Pedder and Dennis Brown noted that psychodynamic is based on the provision of a setting in which a person may begin to reconcile with this disowned aspects of himself, his experience (Bateman, Pedder and Brown, p.When Yalom first met Thelma, he disregarded 20 years of experience/evidence at the outset that Thelma was a poor candidate for psychotherapy.

Cohn identified these instinctual wishes as various forms of disturbed behavior which attempt to re-enter consciousness that when they do, they appear as dreams and as symptoms, and as various forms of disturbed behavior (Cohn, p. A second challenge is that many existential therapists resist Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology (EBPP), viewing it as excessively restrictive. As the reader I wanted to “fix” Thelma and this made me realise that it also brought out an exaggerated sense of responsibility in me – this is possibly from bringing up my kids as a single parent. We as human beings need some sort of physical form to attach ourselves to no matter what circumstance may be presented in front of us. At the point when Thelma recognised her obsession for what it was, it seemed grief started to appear for her but at the same time this led to her despair that therapy was a waste of time.She was still with her husband Harry as far as the reader knows, but yet yearning for a relationship with Matthew, but this marriage filled a need in both Thelma and Harry as they stayed together. Mots clés : psychothérapie existentielle, psychologie, développement historique, traitement, communauté, l' Afrique Экзистенциальная психотерапия: история развития и современная практика использования подхода при работе в Африканских сообществах Резюме: Основой подхода, называемого «экзистенциальная психотерапия», является понимание существования людей в этом мире. This type of psychotherapy though not consistent in terms of schedule yet, every session is adapted to the patient’s situation and intervention and it provides mental and real trial action as part of its enhancement orientated conception of the Future Pace (Jalem and Schutz, par. Sterman noted that the task of the therapist in the NLP is to “work with the client in identifying problem behaviors and desired outcomes or goals expanding the repertoire of available choices.

Bateman, Pedder and Brown said, differently named therapies are not distinct with each other, contrary to the popular “yet erroneous belief that they differs from one another” (Bateman, Pedder and Brown, p. Rogers’s theory assumes that clients can understand what is causing them unhappiness in their lives. Irvin Yalom in’ Love’s Executioner’ is nonfiction that tries to present existential approach to therapy of ill cancer patients. This is because Yalom personally believed that many therapists employ many methods using existential insights.

Therefore, this paper can only compare these two therapies in the light of their similarities and origin. To summarize, the concept of existential and psychoanalysis, to apply in the therapeutic concept, requires the counselling session some amount of time to be given to the patient to ‘communicate him or her self’ including his or her past; by communicating one’s thought, the patient finds some comfort and releases tension caused by irritating circumstances of the past. This paper examines the historical development and the relevance of Existential psychotherapy, and then looks at its practice in the present day especially as it has been developed and is used in African communities. Irvin Yalom in’ Love’s Executioner’ Dryden further explained that “the existential approach is a valuable, effective psychotherapeutic paradigm, as rational, as coherent, and as systematic as any other (Dryden, p.