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Lesson 10:-Theoretical aspect of person centered therapy.
Humanistic-Existential Therapy
The emphasis on understanding human experience and a focus on the client rather than the
symptom connect humanistic and existential approaches. Psychological issues (including
substance addiction disorders) are seen as the result of a hampered ability to create true,
meaningful, and self-directed life choices. As a result, treatments are designed to help
clients become more self-aware and understand themselves.
While acceptance and progress are significant phrases in humanistic treatment, client
responsibility and freedom are major topics in existential therapy.
People have the potential for self-awareness and choice, according to both humanistic and
existential views. The two schools, however, arrive to this conclusion based on distinct
theories. Human nature, according to the humanistic viewpoint, is fundamentally worthy,
having the ability to form healthy, meaningful relationships and make decisions that benefit
oneself and others. The goal of a humanistic therapist is to help people break free from
limiting beliefs and attitudes so they can live more fully.
Rather than healing diseases or easing disorders, the therapist promotes growth and self-
actualization. This viewpoint focuses on present conscious processes rather than
unconscious processes and previous causes, yet it, like the existential approach, believes
that people are born with the ability to determine their own lives. Being one's genuine self,
according to the humanistic therapist, is the genesis of difficulties.
The therapeutic connection acts as a vehicle or setting in which psychological growth can
take place. The humanistic therapist seeks to establish a warm and accepting therapeutic
relationship with the client, trusting that the client's inner urge is to manifest in a healthy
way.
The existentialist, on the other hand, is more concerned with assisting the client in
discovering philosophical meaning in the face of anxiety by encouraging them to think and
behave in a genuine and responsible manner. The major concerns people experience,
according to existential therapy, are worry over loneliness, isolation, despair, and,
eventually, death. People are seeing creativity, love, honesty, and free will as viable
pathways to transformation, allowing them to live meaningful lives in the face of
uncertainty and hardship.
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The Logotherapy was developed by Victor Frankl, a psychiatrist and neurologist. The
Greek term logos means "soul," therefore logotherapy implies "soul treatment." This act
of discovering meaning, even in life-threatening situations, is referred to by Frankl as
"meaning making." The search for the spiritual reality of one's life lies at the heart of
meaning creation.
Psychological distress is said to be caused by emotions of loneliness, alienation, and an

inability to find meaning and genuine fulfilment in life, according to humanistic-existential
therapies. The need for personal growth and self-actualization, as well as a natural urge
to grow emotionally, drive human beings. Human beings feel psychological anguish when
these demands are not met by society and family. Self-actualisation is defined as an
innate or inborn drive that propels a person to become more complex, balanced, and
integrated, i.e. achieving complexity and balance without fragmentation. Integrated
means having a sense of wholeness, being a full person, and remaining essentially the
same person despite a wide range of experiences. Frustration with self-actualization
creates suffering in the same way as a lack of food or water does.
Gestalt Psychotherapy is a type of psychotherapy that 'Whole' is the German word

gestalt. Freiderick (Fritz) Perls and his wife Laura Perls provided this treatment. Gestalt
therapy aims to improve a person's self-awareness and acceptance of themselves. The
client is trained to recognise the physical functions and emotions that are being hidden
from view. The therapist accomplishes this by encouraging the client to act out feelings
and problems in dreams. This treatment can be done in a group environment as well.
Therapy that is focused on the client Carl Rogers was a proponent of client-centered
therapy. Rogers merged scientific objectivity with client-centered psychotherapy's
personalized practice. Rogers introduced the concept of self into psychotherapy,
emphasizing the importance of freedom and choice in one's life. The treatment creates a
warm environment for the client to reconnect with her or his shattered emotions. The
therapist is warm and has unconditional positive regard for the client, which means that
she or he understands the client's experience as if it were her or his own. In a
nonjudgmental approach, the therapist echoes the client's feelings. Rephrasing the
client's statements, i.e. seeking basic clarifications to increase the meaning of the client's
statements, is how the reflection is accomplished. The client's integration is aided by this
reflection process. With more adaptability, personal relationships improve. In essence,
this treatment assists a client in becoming his or her true self, with the therapist acting as
a guide.
Everyone experiences losses (people die, relationships end), and these losses can be
stressful since they serve as reminders of human limitations and death. Human impact is
moulded by genes, culture, and luck, according to the existential therapist. Existential
therapy is based on the idea that people's issues stem from a lack of ability to exercise
choice and judgement in order to create meaning in their lives, and that each person is
responsible for doing so.
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Lesson 10:-Theoretical aspect of person centered therapy.

Psychological distress is said to be caused by emotions of loneliness, alienation, and an

Gestalt Psychotherapy is a type of psychotherapy that 'Whole' is the German word

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