Research a Strategy of Emotional Health

"Existential psychotherapy is partly based on the existential belief that human beings are alone in the world. This feeling of aloneness leads to feelings of meaninglessness which can be overcome only by creating one’s own values and meanings. Existential psychotherapy suggest that in making our own choices we assume full responsibility for the results and blame no one but ourselves if the result is less than what we desired. The psychotherapist helps his or her patients/clients along this path: to discover why the patient/client is overburdened by the anxieties of aloneness and meaninglessness, to find new and better ways to manage these anxieties, to make new and healthy choices, and to emerge from therapy as a free and sound human being."

"The existential psychotherapist is generally not concerned with the client's past; instead, the emphasis is on the choices to be made in the present and future. The counselor and the client may reflect upon how the client has answered life's questions in the past, but attention ultimately shifts to searching for a new and increased awareness in the present and enabling a new freedom and responsibility to act. The patient can then accept they are not special, and that their existence is simply coincidental, without destiny or fate. By accepting this, they can overcome their anxieties, and instead view life as moments, in which they are fundamentally free."

"Existential belief suggests that it is possible for people to face the anxieties of life head-on and embrace the human condition of aloneness, to revel in the freedom to choose and take full responsibility for their choices. They courageously take the helm of their lives and steer in whatever direction they choose; they have the courage to be. One does not need to arrest feelings of meaninglessness, but can choose new meanings for their lives. By building, by loving, and by creating one is able to live life as one's own adventure. One can accept one's own mortality and overcome fear of death. "

Existential Psychology

From doing the research on Existential Psychology, I think I believe in what their view points in human beings and minds. Basically, the existential therapy's view point on human mind is that all human beings are alone in their own world and we all are trying to find the connection between each other as the meaning to live. However, we are unable to depend on the others for "validation". Therefore, we come to believe that we are fundamentally alone when we came to the world, and our validation must come within and not from the others. I think by helping people to realize this, people will begin to be more independent and not relying on luck or destiny. In addition to that, we would be more responsible for who we are and making good choices and not blaming the others because we take controls of our own lives. According to Sartre, he believes that people who think that making choices is such a burden and pretend there are no choices are not taking responsibility of their own lives, as he called living in Bad Faith. "He believed it was nearly impossible to live without such self deception."

Another interesting thing about this strategy is that the existential thinkers are trying to avoid putting clients/patients into categories. Therefore, they analyze people based on experiences and creating four world. The physical dimension (natural world), social dimension (public world), psychological dimension (personal world), and spiritual dimension (ideal world). I think these categories are pretty much well covered the whole, because according to these worlds, they shaped pour attitude towards our life experiences.