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Прилуцька, А. Є. "ЕКЗИСТЕНЦІЯ ОСОБИСТОСТІ: ПИТАННЯ ЕКОЛОГІЧНОСТІ СВІДОМОСТІ ТА СВОБОДИ ВИБОРУ МОДЕЛЕЙ САМОРЕАЛІЗАЦІЇ СУЧАСНОЇ ЛЮДИНИ." Humanities journal, no. 3 (October 3, 2019): 5–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.32620/gch.2019.3.01.
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The article analyzes the potential of the existential personality setting in the face of social crises, the issues of ecological consciousness and the freedom to choose models of self-realization of modern man. Constructiveness and effectiveness of existential way of life are investigated on the example of ecological practices and downshifting phenomenon.In the axiological dimension, the crisis is characterized by the collapse of norms, the absence of generally significant values. The problem for the self-identification and self-realization of Ukrainians is that Ukraine does not have a well-defined strategy of development, an official ideology as a concentrated expression of the main problems of Ukrainian society.In today's Ukrainian socio-cultural context, the existential problems of responsibility for one's choice of life path are actualized. This choice as an existential choice is certainly an axiological choice.Traditional family values and families remain relevant to Ukrainians. In times of social crisis, in the era of development of social programming technologies, globalization of mental regulation of behavior, the presence of the family is a threat to resistance to mass consumer culture, because the family is a violation of the homogeneity of the mass - a source of personal meanings and values, etc.The actualization of existential problems in society has been the impetus for the growth of existential topics in humanities. Рractices built on the platform of existential outlook as being of concrete application demonstrating their effectiveness by refuting the concept of existentialism as a cultural and historical temporary project.The existential personality setting is closely linked to the ecological setting, which is seen as an alternative to the consumer setting. Particular attention is paid to eco-practices, environmental lifestyles as a way of solving existential problems, realizing authentic existence and existential self-realization.In this context, the choice of Simple life as a strategy of life is a choice between the scales of values and the possibilities of their realization. Simple life reflects the movement towards true self-realization, an ecology of consciousness, freedom and responsibility.Thus, the existential setting of the personality provides an increase in the dimensions of one's freedom can be a constructive and effective basis for self-realization of the individual.
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Dołęga, Zofia. "Poczucie samotności jako moderator przebiegu kryzysów sytuacyjnych, rozwojowych i egzystencjalnych." Psychologia Rozwojowa 25, no. 3 (2020): 89–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843879pr.20.021.13158.
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The Feeling of Loneliness as a Moderator of the Course of Situational, Developmental and Existential Crises The article addresses the issue of different categories of psychological crises. The main thesis of the work formulates the belief that feeling of loneliness (consisting of three dimensions: a feeling of social, emotional and existential loneliness) in crisis states is an important moderator (predictor) of their course and ultimately psychological consequences. In the theoretical layer, the problem raised here is based on the assumptions of life-span developmental psychology theory, and in the empirical layer refers to the results of a number of research projects in which a sense of loneliness among other numerous variables has been given the status of predictor. The results of the projects show that taking the feeling of loneliness into account provides a better insight into the direct or indirect consequences of psychological crises with different characteristics. This matters not only theoretically, but also practically. On the one hand, it raises awareness of the course and psychological consequences of crises caused by various risks, losses and relational deficits. On the other hand, it advocates the use of proprietary tools to measure feelings of loneliness: (SBS-C, 8–13 years), adolescents (SBS, 12–19 years), and adults (SBS-AD and SBS-ADC) (Dołęga, 2020).
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Abakumova, Irina, Mikhail Godunov, and Anastasia Grishina. "SELF-TRANSCENDENCE IN THE PREADAPTIVE STRATEGY OF SENSE-MAKING." World of academia: Culture, Education, no. 2 (March 5, 2021): 105–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.18522/2658-6983-2021-2-105-109.
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In the course of acmeological development, transition of an individual from adaptation to preadaptive activity takes place. Thanks to preadaptivity, a person has new opportunities for the development of such features of his personality that help to overcome various crisis and uncertain situations. In such conditions, the system of personal senses becomes an integral regulator of life activity. The state of integrity of this system shows the possible ways of raising a person above self-actualization as a result of self realization in reality. Self-transcendence follows self-actualization and means going beyond the present self to fulfill the highest purpose. Self-transcendence is based on the process of overcoming the existential crisis of finiteness of one's being, as a result of which the system of personal senses gets restarted and shifts to creating cultural benefits for other people. Self-transcendence contains such existential attributes as experience of creative insights, preservation of subjectivity, ability to overcome existential crises in a positive way, tolerance to uncertainty, creative thinking, freedom in taking responsibility in search for one's own destiny
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Tomaszek, Katarzyna, and Agnieszka Muchacka-Cymerman. "Thinking about My Existence during COVID-19, I Feel Anxiety and Awe—The Mediating Role of Existential Anxiety and Life Satisfaction on the Relationship between PTSD Symptoms and Post-Traumatic Growth." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 19 (September 27, 2020): 7062. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17197062.
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Background: The global outbreak of COVID-19set new challenges and threats for every human being. In the psychological field it is similar to deep existential crises or a traumatic experience that may lead to the appearance or exacerbation of a serious mental disorder and loss of life meaning and satisfaction. Courtney et al. (2020) discussed deadly pandemic COVID-19 in the light of TMT theory and named it as global contagion of mortality that personally affected every human being. Such unique conditions activate existential fears as people start to be aware of their own mortality. Objective: The main aim of this study was to test the mediating effect of existential anxiety, activated by COVID-19 and life satisfaction (SWLS) on the relationship between PTSD symptoms and post-traumatic growth (PTG). We also examined the moderated mediating effect of severity of trauma symptoms on life satisfaction and existential anxiety and its associations with PTG. Method: We conducted an online survey during the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in Poland. The participants completed existential anxiety scale (SNE), life satisfaction scale (SWLS), IES-R scale for measuring the level of PTSD symptoms and post-traumatic growth inventory (PTGI). Results: The effect of PTSD on PTG was found to be mediated by existential anxiety and life satisfaction. We also confirmed two indirect effects: (1) the indirect effect of PTSD on PTG via existential anxiety and life satisfaction tested simultaneously; (2) the indirect effect of life satisfaction on PTG through severity of trauma symptoms. An intermediate or high level of PTSD level was related to less PTG when low and full PTSD stress symptoms strengthened PTG experiences. Conclusions: A therapeutic intervention for individuals after traumatic experience should attempt to include fundamental existential questions and meaning of life as well as the severity of PTSD symptoms. The severity of traumatic sensations may affect the relationship between life satisfaction and post-traumatic growth.
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Yang, Mark. "Resilience and Meaning-Making Amid the COVID-19 Epidemic in China." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 60, no. 5 (June 5, 2020): 662–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022167820929215.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is a powerful border experience awakening us to our existential predicament. Such a predicament includes transience and impermanence, unpredictability, emptiness (existential vacuum), and the interdependence of life and death. The anxiety aroused by the pandemic can awaken us to an ontological mode of existence in which we are authentic, aware, responsible, and transcendent. The Chinese idiom reminds us that crises contain both danger and opportunity. Thus, this article explores how out of this awareness can emerge resilience, creativity, and meaning-making in the midst of confinement, isolation, and suffering.
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Greene, Herman F. "Multiple Faces of Science in Ethical Environmental Decision-Making." Tattva - Journal of Philosophy 6, no. 2 (July 1, 2014): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.12726/tjp.12.1.
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This essay concerns the multiple faces of science in ethical environmental decision-making. Environmental crises pose existential threats to human and non-human life. Science is essential to any meaningful response to these crises, but science as it is conventionally understood and practiced is not adequate to the task. Drawing on the work of Bruno Latour in his 2013 Gifford Lectures on ―Facing Gaia: Six Lectures on the Political Theology of Nature,‖1 I will critique this understanding and practice in relation to four faces of science - (i) capacity builder, (ii) informer and guide, (iii) philosophy, and (iv) institution—and propose reforms.
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GRIDKOVETS, L. M. "SEPARATE RESULTS OF LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL FACTORS OF FAMILY DETERMINANTS IN PERSONAL CRISES." Herald of Kiev Institute of Business and Technology 42, no. 4 (December 23, 2019): 95–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.37203/kibit.2019.42.15.
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The article presents a typological model of the psychological and pedagogical factors of family determination of personal crises. The main groups of psychological and pedagogical factors of family determinants of personality life construction and crisis experience formation have been determined, and namely: factors of constructive mode, strategic mode, and functional mode; whereas psychological and pedagogical factors of the constructive mode are ensured by the action of humanistic value factors, accumulative value factors; constructive balance factors; goal-setting value factors; problem-oriented factors; subjective and vital factors; creative and constructive factors. Factors of strategic mode include reflexive and existential factors (determining an ability of an individual or a community to track phenomena, to understand their essence, to learn existential values); experience and historical factors (determining standardized behavioural patterns of an individual, family, nation, those patterns having fostered their survival in a certain historical period); cultural and traditional factors (determining local and global heritage, the achievements of a society in the material and spiritual segments of existence and their manifestation in the life of an individual, family, nation, and humanity); spiritual and religious factors (characterizing basic spiritual values of an individual and family regarding the role and place of a human in the world, as individuals, as men and women inter-connected and inter-related with the Absolute. Functional psychological and pedagogical factors are primarily ensuring the consistency of marital values (in the parental and own family), the consistency of values (family values and those individually acquired) with the traditional values of a particular nation (or nations), which ethos the specific individual is representing; the consistency of values (family values and those individually acquired) with the situational values of a particular community and society in a particular time and space. The results of an empirical study of the effects of psychological and pedagogical factors of family determination on the nature of overcoming personal crises of different etiology in target samples are presented. Correlation relationships between groups of strategic factors are determined. Based on the research data, peculiarities of influence of psychological and pedagogical factors of family determinants on a personal life design along three research vectors are identified: transgenerational, intergenerational, and individual. The specific features of sensitivity in selected supportive and crisis families to the types of psychological and pedagogical factors of family determinants in crises periods are revealed.
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Medveschi, Iulia. "Towards a Meaning-Centered Philosophy of Communication." Postmodern Openings 12, no. 1 (March 19, 2021): 380–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/po/12.1/267.
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Philosophical counseling is a dialogical practice which aims to explore and elucidate issues that do not fall into the pathological sphere, focusing on: common situations you may experience in daily life, moral dilemmas, existential crises due to lack of meaning or purpose of life, ethical conflicts in the workplace, reconciling present experiences with previous thoughts and painstakingly careful inquiries. Sandu Frunză reminds us that philosophical practices should not be understood as a way to satisfy the counseled person or applying painstakingly careful inquiries by finding a viable solution to the problem that worries them, but rather offers them an opportunity to broaden their horizons of knowledge by confronting ideas and beliefs different from his own. In the light of these statements, it would not be to bold to reassure that one of the main purposes of philosophical counseling could only be the search for and acquisition of wisdom. Practicing counsellors as well as scholars and advanced students of philosophy, communication, counseling, and educational and ethical guidance will find the volume Philosophy and everyday life: Books might change your life of particular importance.
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Katsounari, Ioanna. "Older Adults’ Perceptions of Psychotherapy in Cyprus." Behavioral Sciences 9, no. 11 (November 19, 2019): 116. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs9110116.
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The purpose of the study was to explore older adults’ views and perceptions of psychotherapy in Cyprus. A total of 25 older adults, aged between 65–89, participated in semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis identified three main themes: Familiar term/Unfamiliar process; existential crises during this stage; and the issue of stigma in psychotherapy. Participants indicated a basic understanding of what psychotherapy entails, but did not associate psychotherapy with serious mental illness. Participants identified a number of existential issues that are potentially major life stressors for an elderly person and referred to the historical stigma that has an impact on their own perceptions about psychotherapy. However, participants seemed to view their ability to overcome psychological difficulties on their own as a proof of personal strength. Psychologists and other health professionals also need to be mindful of how they describe psychological concepts and treatment, as older adults may not understand what they are being told or may be afraid of what treatment involves based on historical context. This study highlights the importance of using strategies that may have the potential to empower this population in order to proactively attend to their mental health, including community-based education and national mental health campaigns.
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Kostina, Alina. "“Drowning in data”: personal and institutional crises as the result of extensive digitalization." Digital Scholar Philosopher s Lab 4, no. 1 (2021): 22–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.32326/2618-9267-2021-4-1-22-28.
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The following work is a commentary on the article “Digitalization challenges for technogenic civilization” written by Evgeniy Maslanov. The main focus here is on an individual, facing the new experience of digital world as an average user and a researcher at the same time. New technical tools, which have been put into use throughout history of humanity, require continual redefinition by a human being of himself/herself in the world and in multiple professional fields. Nevertheless, one of the most drastic issues in question is whether a virtual personality could be considered as an “extension” of a real life human, or it represents a “digital twin”. With any position accepted, digital systems initiate a certain order of power relations, where digital “footprints” assemble into personal biographies. This fact challenges not only personal privacy, but also existential conti-nuity of humanity. At the level of scientific research, one of the major disputes centers on data collection and its claim for the leading methodological strategy of science today. This study argues that the dispute only illustrates transitional period related to approbation of new data algorithms. Therefore, it is in no way a substitution of theoretical level of science with empirical knowledge. Nevertheless, the issue that caught E. Maslanov’s attention is extremely valuable. The new “big data” tools require competence, which becomes the key factor of adequate methodological improvements and scientific conceptualization.
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Vanhooren, Siebrecht, Mia Leijssen, and Jessie Dezutter. "Loss of Meaning as a Predictor of Distress in Prison." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 61, no. 13 (December 24, 2015): 1411–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624x15621984.
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Incarceration has been described as a distressing experience, marked by important losses and accompanied by deep existential crises. Some prisoners “hit rock bottom” and are confronted with the fact that their life does not make sense anymore. Surprisingly, loss of meaning among prisoners has not been studied in a quantitative way before. In this study, we explored the relationship between loss of meaning inflicted by incarceration and distress. In a sample of 365 prisoners, univariate analyses and hierarchical multiple regression analyses confirmed that a loss of meaning positively predicted distress in prison. Differences between prison regimes predicted distress, but had no influence on the loss of meaning. Unsentenced incarceration, in contrast, did not have a direct relationship to distress, but amplified the effect of loss of meaning on distress. Psychotherapy and chaplain support did not affect the relationship between loss of meaning and distress during incarceration.
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Garrett, Stephen M. "Captivating the Captive Mind: Challenges Facing Theological Education in Post-Communist Society." International Journal of Public Theology 10, no. 1 (February 29, 2016): 68–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697320-12341429.
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The Lithuanian born, Polish poet and 1980 Nobel laureate, Czeław Miłosz, penned a classic work, The Captive Mind (1951), detailing the allurement and existential crises the intelligentsia faced under Soviet totalitarianism. For many in post-communist societies, social realism fits well with varying forms of democratic capitalism’s privatization of faith. Consequently, little room remains for theological education beyond the limits of institutional religion. Reductionistic accounts of human personhood and views of God as absent are central to this social imaginary. The challenge for Christian theology is to address these matters creatively yet critically, communicating with charity an alternative narrative of human ontology. Hans Urs von Balthasar is one voice that does so through his theological personalism, rooted in the economic missio of Christ’s trinitarian life. He offers a creative way of envisioning humanity as captivated and constituted by its dialogical encounter with God, being drawn into the theodrama of human society.
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Romchmawati, Dwi Heppy, Betie Febriana, and Prasetyo Aji Nugroho. "THE IMPROVEMENT OF SELF CONCEPTUAL AND THE ABILITY OF KNOWING LIFE'S PURPOSE OF TEENAGER PRISONER WITH LOGOTHERAPY." INDONESIAN NURSING JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND CLINIC (INJEC) 1, no. 1 (March 13, 2018): 68. http://dx.doi.org/10.24990/injec.v1i1.54.
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Introduction: The number of juvenile prisoners who has found at the first class prison institution in Semarang is 25 people. This figure shows that increasing around 20% in compare with the previous year. Juvenile prisoners who have experienced disorder of self-concept caused in an inability in make sense of their life. The aim of this research is to describe the implementation effect of logotheraphy to the self-concept and the ability to make sense of life to the juvenile prisoners at first class prison institution in Semarang. Logotherapy is a technique to cure or reduce or alleviate the existential crises through the discovery of the meaning of life. Logotherapy is implemented in the form of counseling and oriented individual to find the meaning of life. Method: This research uses a design Quasy experiment with methods of pretest and post test in one group. Results: The results of research showed no significant effect on self-concept logotherapy with p value > α is 0.167. But there was a significant effect of the meaningfulness of life logotherapy with p value < α is 0.035. Discussion: Based on the above results that logotheraphy need to be recommended that can be used as a standard therapy for nursing specialist in finding the meaning of life. Keywords: logotherapy, self-concept, Quasy experiment, pre and post-test one group
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Seppälä, Serafim. "The 'Temple of Non-Being' at Tsitsernakaberd and remembrance of the Armenian genocide: an interpretation." Approaching Religion 6, no. 2 (December 14, 2016): 26–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.30664/ar.67589.
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This paper discusses and analyses the memorial complex of Tsitsernakaberd in Yerevan as an architectural and symbolic entity in relation to Armenian national identity in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide of 1915. How does this Soviet-era structure fulfil its role as a genocide memorial today, including its function as a forced substitute for the hundreds of holy places and the culture and life connected with them? On the one hand, this is only a small inquiry into the function of one building complex. Yet on the other hand, the topic is more essential than perhaps anything in history: the genocide memorial crystallises a set of profound questions, serious problems and agonising processes. An entire national existence can be crushed in a genocide and subsequently debased through its denial, resulting in existential problems such as, on the one hand, a pressure of assimilation for the diaspora, and on the other, severe socio-economic and geopolitical-military crises in present-day Armenia.
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Fraunhofer, Hedwig. "Spatiotemporality in the Anthropocene: Deleuzoguattarian Philosophy, Quantum Physics, and the German Netflix Series Dark." KronoScope 21, no. 1 (June 25, 2021): 28–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685241-12341486.
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Abstract Crises alter our perception of time. For medical personnel faced with treating unprecedented numbers of critically ill patients under conditions of personal threat, COVID-19 has most recently accelerated the subjective perception of time. For millions of others, social isolation has decelerated our lives. For all of us, at least in the short term, the future has become more uncertain. Theoretical physicists tell us, however, that under any conditions, the human perception of the flowing of time is only a result of our blurred, limited, macroscopic vision. As the quantum physicist Carlo Rovelli writes, therefore, “[t]o understand ourselves is to reflect on time” (2018: 179). Potentially caused by humans’ failed interactions with wild animals, the contemporary global pandemic, as well as previous outbreaks such as SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-related coronavirus) or the bird flu, has led to calls to reevaluate humans’ relationships with nonhuman life, with the natural environment that includes us, in the epoch that may soon be named for our very failure – the Anthropocene. In an era in which our usual, day-to-day certainties and desire for human control have been upended, not only by the current medical crisis but also by the continuing existential threat to terrestrial life that is climate change, a rethinking of the category of the human, a new conceptualization of the entangled (human and nonhuman) material relationships on our planet and beyond, requires reflecting on time. This article engages in such reflection through a conversation with the philosophical writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
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Toftdahl, Hellmut. "En tilfældig slægt." Grundtvig-Studier 42, no. 1 (January 1, 1991): 170–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/grs.v42i1.16067.
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‘Just a Family’Birgit Michelsen: ‘The Catechist, the Dean, and the Socialist’. The History of Three Generations. Published by Anis, Århus, 1989.By Hellmut Toftdahl The writer has written about three people in the history of her family, for whom Christianity was a deeply personal matter. Their crises reflect the crisis which the Christian Church underwent in those years. We also meet several other people in the book, sons and daughters of the three. Their scruples and rebellions, ranging from radical free-thinking to an involvement in German Socialism, are woven together into a vivid presentation of the history of ideas of the time.The main character of the book is the restless, fascinating Christian, who ended his life in Leipzig as a Socialist and naturalized German. With his doubt about the ‘truths’ he had inherited from his family of clergymen, and in his search for the ‘right thinking’, he was ahead of his time. In his honesty and need to be true to himself, he had a good deal in common with both Søren Kierkegaard and Grundtvig, whose contemporary he was.In a Grundtvig context the book is interesting because it affords personal evidence of the ecclesiastical and existential forces that Søren Kierkegaard and Grundtvig, with their liberating theology, were up against among the representatives of the established understanding of Christianity of the time.
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Ventegodt, Søren, Elin Solheim, Mads E. Saunte, Mohammed Morad, Isack Kandel, and Joav Merrick. "Clinical Holistic Medicine: Metastatic Cancer." Scientific World JOURNAL 4 (2004): 913–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2004.189.
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We believe that the consciousness-based/holistic medical toolbox has a serious additional offer to cancer patients and, as a consequence, designed a treatment for the patient with metastasized cancer. From a holistic perspective, cancer can be understood as a simple disturbance of the cells, arising from the tissue holding on to a trauma with strong emotional content. This is called “a blockage”, where the function of the cells is allocated from their original function in the tissue to a function of holding emotions. We hope to be able not only to improve the quality of life, but also to improve survival and in some cases even induce spontaneous remission of the metastasized cancer. This paper describes how work with a patient with metastasized cancer can be done in the holistic clinical practice in 14 days on an individual basis, helping the patient to recover her human character, purpose of life, coherence, and will to live, thus improving quality of life and possibly also survival time. The holistic therapeutic work includes (1) teaching existential theory, (2) working with life perspective and philosophy of life, (3) helping the patient to acknowledge the state of the disease and the feelings connected to it, and finally (4) getting the patient into the holistic state of healing: (a) feeling old repressed emotions, (b) understanding why she got sick from a holistic point of view, and finally (c) letting go of the negative beliefs and decisions that made her sick according to the holistic theory of nongenetic diseases. The theory of the human character, the quality of life theories, the holistic theory of cancer, the holistic process theory of healing, the theory of (Antonovsky) coherence, and the life mission theory are the most important theories for the patient to find hope and mobilize the will to fight the cancer and survive. The patient went through the following phases: (1) finding the purpose of life and hidden resources; (2) confronting denial; (3) taking responsibility for being very ill; (4) severe existential crises with no wish to live while still fighting; (5) integration of many repressed feelings and negative decisions thus rehabilitating character; (6) confronting lack of intimacy and trust in others and this way rehabilitating the ability to love; (7) rehabilitating the will to live, breaking through and falling in love with life; (8) assuming responsibility for the social relations; and sometimes (9) quality of life is improved radically with indications of spontaneous remission of the liver tumors.
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Ventegodt, Søren, Isack Kandel, and Joav Merrick. "Clinical Holistic Medicine (Mindful Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Complimented with Bodywork) in the Treatment of Schizophrenia (ICD10-F20/DSM-IV Code 295) and Other Psychotic Mental Diseases." Scientific World JOURNAL 7 (2007): 1987–2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2007.298.
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Clinical holistic medicine (CHM) has developed into a system that can also be helpful with mentally ill patients. CHM therapy supports the patient through a series of emotionally challenging, existential, and healing crises. The patient’s sense of coherence and mental health can be recovered through the process of feeling old repressed emotions, understanding life and self, and finally letting go of negative beliefs and delusions. The Bleuler's triple condition of autism, disturbed thoughts, and disturbed emotions that characterizes the schizophrenic patient can be understood as arising from the early defense of splitting, caused by negative learning from painful childhood traumas that made the patient lose sense of coherence and withdraw from social contact. Self-insight gained through the therapy can allow the patients to take their bodily, mental, and spiritual talents into use. At the end of therapy, the patients are once again living a life of quality centered on their life mission and they relate to other people in a way that systematically creates value. There are a number of challenges meeting the therapist who works with schizophrenic and psychotic patients, from the potential risk of experiencing a patient's violence, to the obligation to contain the most difficult and embarrassing of feelings when the emotional and often also sexual content of the patient’s unconsciousness becomes explicit. There is a long, well-established tradition for treating schizophrenia with psychodynamic therapy, and we have found that the combination of bodywork and psychotherapy can enhance and accelerate the therapy and might improve the treatment rate further.
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Gullick, Janice G., and M. Colleen Stainton. "The ties that bind us: how existing relationships, health and gender shape family care in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease." Nursing Reports 2, no. 1 (March 12, 2012): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/nursrep.2012.e6.
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) changes family roles and relationship dynamics and the experience of the disease is influenced by family functioning. Merleau- Ponty’s existential philosophy of the body provided the framework for this Heideggerian phenomenological inquiry. Fifteen people with COPD and 14 family members engaged in 58 semi-structured interviews either face-to-face or by telephone. This study identified a difference in the essence of the lived experiences between male and female carers, and between spousal and non-spousal carers in relation to severe COPD. Previous reciprocity framed the level of acceptance of the caring role and perception of care burden. The stories highlight the self-perceived need for women carers to be <em>conscious micro-managers</em> of illness. Male family members would care alongside, lending support and caring in a reactive way as specific needs or crises arose. Caring in COPD required a <em>binding vigilance</em>; a constant need of the carer to monitor the physical and emotional well-being of the sick person that bound them emotionally and cognitively to the task of caring. Carers were the managers of crises and families cared from a perspective of possible death. Family was perceived as the best thing in life. Health professionals should consider the influence of gender, family relationships and the impact of reciprocity when planning support for family caregivers. Further research is required to identify the similarities and differences in family caring between COPD and other chronic illnesses, and to further understand the specific needs of male carers.
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Juškienė, Vaineta. "Spiritual Health as an Integral Component of Human Wellbeing." Applied Research In Health And Social Sciences: Interface And Interaction 13, no. 1 (December 1, 2016): 3–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/arhss-2016-0002.
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Abstract The aim of this study is to actualize personal spiritual health as a fundamental component of human wellbeing. In Lithuania research on spiritual health has not been developed yet as a result of political thinking in the post Soviet legacy which sought to eliminate the factor of spirituality from scientific context, and also due to recent socio-economic trends to over-emphasize the material dimension of personal welfare. Christian anthropology, which has laid foundations for Western European humanist heritage, emphasizes the physical and spiritual components of integrity of the human person and declares the importance of personal spiritual harmony for achievement of fullness of life. While employing analysis of scientific literature and Church documents, this study sought to highlight the basic criteria of personal spiritual health and scientific empirical approaches to establish the importance of spiritual health in the context of comprehensive human wellbeing. The study reveals that an essential component of the concept of spiritual health is relationship. Spiritual health is an important component of human wellbeing enabling the person to cope with personal existential crises in various aspects of human life: stressful situations, illness or presence of death. Research confirms that spiritual health correlates with and is an important positive factor in the overall process of human healing. It may be assumed that actualization and improvement of spiritual health can significantly contribute to the processes of coping with social pathologies present in the modern society.
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Абакумова, Ирина Владимировна, Михаил Викторович Годунов, and Дмитрий Александрович Гурцкой. "SELF-TRANSCEDENCE AS THE BASIS OF PREADAPTIVE STRATEGY OF MEANING-BUILDING." Pedagogical Review, no. 3(31) (June 21, 2020): 185–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.23951/2307-6127-2020-3-185-190.
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Истинное развитие личности связано с уходом от адаптивности как приспособления во внешне детерминированной действительности к преадаптивному характеру деятельности. Преадаптивность позволяет формировать свойства личности, способствующие прохождению кризисных ситуаций. В основе преадаптивной стратегии образования смыслов жизнедеятельности лежит стремление к самотрансценденции как выходу за границы освоенного бытия человека для поиска и осуществления своего истинного предназначения. Выявляются особенности самотрансценденции, лежащей в основе преадаптивной стратегии смыслообразования. Полученные результаты позволяют сформулировать определение преадаптивной смыслообразующей стратегии. True development of personality is associated with the departure from adaptability as an adaptation in an externally determined reality to the preadaptive nature of activity. Preadaptive allows shaping properties of the individual that facilitates the passage of crisis situations. The preadaptive strategy for the building of meanings of life activity is based on the desire for selftranscendence as a way to go beyond the boundaries of what a person has mastered in order to find and realize his true purpose. For real personal growth, the prospect of further development is necessary , which means a transition from self-actualization to self-transcendence, which allows you to interact with the extra-positive reality on the basis of the highest meaning plans of human existence in the world. The purpose of the article is to identify the features of selftranscendence, which is the basis of the preadaptive strategy of meaning building. Analysis of such features of self-transcendence as: the ability to overcome the experience of the finiteness of his existence; the experience of insight; initiating the activity of a socially significant act; the preservation of subjectivity; the ability to positively undergo existential crises; a tolerance for ambiguity; creativity; responsibility in search for his own destiny. The results obtained allow us to formulate a definition of a preadaptive meaning-forming strategy.
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Sobeih, Soraia Mohamed. "The Role of Identity of an Animated Character in the Story Line." Academic Research Community publication 1, no. 1 (September 18, 2017): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.21625/archive.v1i1.130.
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The identity of an animated character means who he really is, or what are the characteristics that would never change? How the character sees himself and how others see him? It includes shape, color, race, beliefs, and choices in life.The more the storyteller gives identity to his animated character, the more it is sound and convincing. In that sense, it touches the audiences’ hearts as they feel its pain or happiness. In other words, they are involved in the story and united with the character.As the story begins, characters and settings are presented before the audience to get an overview of the characters’ identity. Then, more elements are to show up, like the conflict, the problem that needs to be solved and the rising actions, which are series of events that lead to the high main point or the climax. It is considered as a turning point of the story after which the falling actions come. The falling actions are events and complications that start to loosen the plot. Gradually, the solution shows up as the story ends either happily or tragically.Throughout the story line, these groups of events that form the story sometimes account for the appearance of an identity crisis that impact the character. It means that he is uncertain of his feelings about himself; he gets confused about what type of person he is or what is the true purpose of his life. It always takes making an existential that plays a big role in the story line.The identity crises appear in Toy Story 1995 to Buzz light-year when he discovers the truth of himself; that he is a toy, not a space ranger as he thought before. This made him give up hope of returning anywhere. It took him sometime to accept the fact of himself after seeing how Woody struggles to return them both to Andy. He tries his best to save his friend and return home safely, as being dictated by the role’s vision.In Toy Story 2 1999, the identity crises appear to Woody when Buzz strikes him with the fact that he is not a collector’s item. He is a child’s play thing, he is a toy. Then, a decision has to be made to return to Andy, and the struggles start with the Prospector.In Toy Story 3, 2010, the identity crises appear to Woody at the end of the story. He was suffering to be away from all his toy family that will be left in the attic, so he wrote on the box to be donated and he attached himself in, with them hoping that Andy gives him a very warm goodbye and leaves him with the rest of the toys in good hands.In Finding Nemo 2003, the identity crises for Nemo is when he chooses to touch the boat, even though it is a dangerous thing, just to prove to his father and his friends that he is brave. It led him to fall in the capture and to meet other fish Gill in
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Stephen Allister Peté. "Commissions of Inquiry as a Response to Crisis: The Role of the Jali Commission in Creating Public Awareness of Corruption (Part 1)." Obiter 41, no. 4 (March 24, 2021): 903–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/obiter.v41i4.10493.
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When the government of a liberal constitutional democracy is confronted by some or other existential crisis that threatens a major institution of state or the very foundations of the democracy itself, it will often appoint a high-level judicial commission of inquiry as part of its response to the crisis. South Africa is no exception to this tendency, as is evidenced in recent years by the appointment of no fewer than four such commissions in response to a series of crises related to ongoing corruption within state institutions – commonly referred to by ordinary South Africans as “state capture”. This has raised questions as to the alleged benefits of such commissions when viewed in relation to their considerable costs. This article seeks to contribute to this general debate by focusing on one of the purported benefits of such commissions that may be somewhat under-appreciated. This is the creation of public awareness, during the life of the commission itself, about the nature and extent of the particular grave threat that confronts the society in question. It is contended that, mediated by a free and vibrant press, the public narrative that emerges during the operation of a commission of inquiry may serve to make a liberal democratic society more resilient in the face of threats to that society’s continued existence. This article seeks to support this contention by focusing on an important precursor to the more recent commissions of inquiry on corruption in South Africa – that is, the Jali Commission of Inquiry into corruption within the South African penal system, which sat in the early years of the new millennium. By analysing the many articles and reports that appeared in a range of South African newspapers during the initial hearings of the Jali Commission, this article documents the emergence of an important public narrative on corruption within South Africa’s prisons, and reflects upon the ultimate significance of this narrative. This article is divided into two parts: the first part deals with the initial hearings of the Jali Commission in KwaZulu-Natal, and the second part with subsequent hearings in the Free State.
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Terletska, Natalia. "A human being in meta-anthropology and transhumanism: the sense of human exsistance." Grani 23, no. 1-2 (March 16, 2020): 59–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/172014.
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From the point of view of metaanthropology, the article analyzes the values of human being: the value of security, power, freedom, love, unity of freedom and love, as well as the value of such existentials as the sense & meaningfullness of human being & exsistance.The value of the sense of human being & exsistance is analized in a research from such points of view as: life not only for the sake of self-preservation and minimization of suffering, but also for the development, holistic harmonious realization by a humanity of such qualities that make a person capable not only for the consumering of the benefits of civilization, but also becoming a creator of culture, seeking the harmony of spiritual, soul and physical needs, the ability to express empathy and to overcome the existential problems of despair and fear of death, remaining a human creator, maintaining traditional human values and existentials, such as love and freedom.The value of the meaning of human life is analyzed in the realm of such existential concepts as free will and human right to have traditional values.The study focuses on the important theme of the loss of meaningful existentials, which, as a rule, is proposed by transhumanism, having a basis for this in the philosophy of the postmodern era, as well as the search for ways out of the existential, spiritual, soul and moral-ethical crisis in order to preserve the human values. The theoretical basis of the study was the work of philosophers of different periods, studies of psychologists and psychoanalysts, including contemporary, recent work of domestic researchers in meta-anthropology, as well as recent work of foreign representatives of transhumanism.There is made a conclusion that the unification of the values of freedom and love in a person’s life is impossible without preserving the traditional existentials of culture, in particular, such as spirituality, empathy, the capacity for compassion and feelings, which make sense of a human existence & being.
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Haskins, Casey. "The Evolution of Autonomy in Pragmatist Aesthetics." Washington University Review of Philosophy 1 (2021): 66–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/wurop202119.
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Writers in pragmatist aesthetics tend, as naturalists, to avoid the originally Kantian-Idealist term “autonomy” when discussing art and aesthetic experience. Even so, a more general autonomy concept, emphasizing that art and the aesthetic comprise a normatively special aspect of experience, is already implicit in much of the pragmatist aesthetics literature, including in John Dewey’s seminal Art as Experience. As the cultural disciplines move beyond earlier modernist- and postmodernist-era debates about art’s total autonomy from or total “heteronomous” absorption within the processes of life, I argue that a more naturalistically down-to-earth version of the above general autonomy idea remains indispensable in a century of social, environmental, and existential crises whose solutions demand creative agency of a kind that artistically charged experiences can inspire. Drawing upon key pragmatist themes, I further develop the general autonomy idea by arguing that aesthetic experiences within and without the fine arts are horizontally transcendent; that art and the aesthetic answer a persistent human need for experiences that are intrinsically rewarding while also serving the instrumental function of being redemptive; that to this end, our global culture needs collectively accessible autonomous spaces within language and experience that can help people explore and interrogate the meanings of what we individually and collectively do; and that the value of our theoretical beliefs about the arts lies not in their power to represent a world supposedly independent of human thought and action but in what they lead us to do in the world. In conclusion, I illustrate this pragmatic interpretation of the general autonomy idea with a reading of Richard Powers’ novel The Overstory.
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Ventegodt, Søren, Isack Kandel, Shimshon Neikrug, and Joav Merrick. "Clinical Holistic Medicine: The Existential Crisis—Life Crisis, Stress, and Burnout." Scientific World JOURNAL 5 (2005): 300–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2005.40.
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The triple and parallel loss of quality of life, health, and ability without an organic reason is what we normally recognize as a life crisis, stress, or a burnout. Not being in control is often a terrible and unexpected experience. Failure on the large existential scale is not a part of our expectations, but most people will experience it. The key to getting well again is to get resources and help, which most people experience with shame and guilt. Stress and burnout might seem to be temporary problems that are easily handled, but often the problems stay. It is very important for the physician to identify this pattern and help the patient to realize the difficulties and seriousness of the situation, thus helping the patient to assume responsibility and prevent existential disaster, suicide, or severe depression. As soon as the patient is an ally in fighting the dark side of life and works with him/herself, the first step has been reached. Existential pain is really a message to us indicating that we are about to grow and heal. In our view, existential problems are gifts that are painful to receive, but wise to accept. Existential problems require skill on the part of the holistic physician or therapist in order to help people return to life—to their self-esteem, self-confidence, and trust in others. In this paper, we describe how we have met the patients soul to soul and guided them through the old pains and losses in order to get back on the track to life.
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Yang, William, Ton Staps, and Ellen Hijmans. "Existential Crisis and the Awareness of Dying: The Role of Meaning and Spirituality." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 61, no. 1 (August 2010): 53–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/om.61.1.c.
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An existential crisis may occur in cancer patients when they realize that their death may be imminent. We explore the ways in which patients deal with this crisis, in which the meaning of life itself is at stake. In dealing with an existential crisis, it is important to have the courage to confront the loss of meaning and security. Then, a new sense of meaning may emerge which is essentially a receptive experience of connectedness with an ego-transcending reality, such as mankind, nature, or God. This reduces existential fear and despair and leads to acceptance of “life-as-it-is,” including its finitude. The article concludes with implications for healthcare workers.
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Terletska, Natalia. "The problem of human transformation and the criteria of "good" and "evil" in meta-anthropology and transhumanism." Grani 23, no. 3 (March 4, 2020): 64–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/172026.
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From the position of meta-anthropology, at the article are analyzed the values of being: the value of the archetypes of good, freedom, love, unity of freedom and love, as well as the value of such an existential as the meaning of human existence.The value of the sense of being is analized in a research from such points of view as: life not only for the sake of self-preservation and minimization of suffering, but also for the development, holistic harmonious realization by a humanity of such qualities that make a person capable not only for the consumering of the benefits of civilization, but also becoming a creator of culture, seeking for the harmony of spiritual, soul and physical needs, the ability to express empathy and to overcome the existential problems of despair and fear of death, remaining a human creator, maintaining traditional human values and existentials, such as love and freedom.The value of the archetypes of good, freedom, love and the criteria of good and evil are analyzed in the field of such existentially important concepts as free will and the human right for the traditional and sacred values.The study focuses on the important theme of the loss of criteria of good and evil, which, as a rule, is proposed by transhumanism, having a basis for this in the philosophy of the postmodern era, as well as the search for ways out of the existential, spiritual, soul and moral-ethical crisis in order to preserve the human values.The theoretical basis of the study was the work of philosophers of different periods, studies of psychologists and psychoanalysts, including contemporary, recent work of domestic researchers in meta-anthropology, as well as recent work of foreign representatives of transhumanism.There is made a conclusion that the preserving the existantials of the culture in human existence is impossible without maintaining the traditional criteria of good and evil in the context of sacred transcendental values.
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Bland, Andrew M. "Existential Givens in the COVID-19 Crisis." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 60, no. 5 (July 10, 2020): 710–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022167820940186.
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COVID-19 confronts humanity with an undeniable, unprecedented crisis. The focus of this article is the opportunities it offers for a proverbial pressing of the reset button by prompting pause and reflection on habitual patterns and serving as an “urgent experience” with the potential to spark revitalizing intentionality. Using Greening’s four dialectical existential givens— life/death, community/isolation, freedom/determinism, and meaning/absurdity—as a guiding framework, I explore imbalances in aspects of life in the United States that have been illuminated by COVID-19. Then, I employ existential–humanistic theorizing and research as a vision of how these dialectical forces can be transcended by confronting paradoxes posed by these givens (vs. simplistically overemphasizing either their positive or their negative aspects) and by activating the creative potential therein. Specifically, COVID-19 offers opportunities for individuals to relinquish an unsustainable and ineffective way of being inherent in and reinforced by the U.S. cultural narrative; to embrace ambiguity and tragedy; to actively identify, remediate, and reconcile underacknowledged and underactualized human capacities; and therefore to heal false dichotomies and become more capable of living fully, authentically, and flexibly. Accordingly, COVID-19 also provides opportunities for collective co-creation of a cultural narrative involving evolution toward enhanced senses of consciousness and caring.
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Abshavi, Mojgan. "Márquez’ “The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow”: The Existential Crisis in Escaping Reality." Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 8, no. 5 (September 1, 2017): 103–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mjss-2017-0028.
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Abstract Existential crisis befalls an individual whenever he/she becomes conscious over his/her own freedom in front of an apparently absurd universe or whenever he/she begins to think about his/her position and situation as a conscious being within the society. In order not to submit to the apparent absurdity of the world and not to remain in doubt over one’s position and situation in the society, Existentialism offers humankind a set of principles to bear the universe and one’s life and to live the moments of life in the best possible way. Gabriel García Márquez’ “The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow” is a short story in which Márquez has presented us with an individual’s struggles with his existence as such, a man who is trying to make sense of his life before the existential crisis befalling him through the sudden death of his wife. The present study tries to investigate into the existential crisis that happens to Márquez’ protagonist as such and highlight Márquez’ solutions for such circumstances regarding his existential concerns.
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Poltoratska, Alla. "An animal in the existential crisis of man." LITERARY PROCESS: methodology, names, trends, no. 16 (2020): 41–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2412-2475.2020.16.6.
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In this article a series of books about Bob the cat and his interaction with the author are analyzed. His story allows the reader to understand homeless people and drug addicts who are outside the society in which the majority of the population seeks to avoid them. The author says that they also may have a chance for another future, but with faith and support in them. So James tells his life story, in which he has support from the Bob. It is the cat that appears as a thing for rescuing James from existential emptiness, loneliness, and drug addiction. The animal becomes the point of intersection between Bowen and ordinary people. In addition, Bob is a kind of marker of human manifestation in man and helps ordinary passers-by to notice it in James. Thanks to the cat, people’s attitude towards James is changing, because he is undergoing transformations. This is because James, before meeting Bob, takes life harshly, cruelly, and hopelessly, and then he understands the world differently. The animal performs those functions that belong to humans, one of which - teaches man to be human. The non-human is a comrade who understands and supports. Man starts to change for the better and strives for these changes. An animal enables a person to change and start life anew, to think about the common future of man and animal. Thus, James Bowen outlines a new paradigm of human-animal relations and defines the peculiarity of this interaction.
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Längle, Alfred. "Old Age from an Existential-Analytical Perspective." Psychological Reports 89, no. 2 (October 2001): 211–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.2001.89.2.211.
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Aging confronts humans with specific existential issues. They frequently cause suffering in old age. Not dealing with or insufficiently dealing with these existential themes may result in crisis, psychological disorders, and illness. By integrating existential themes of aging into the understanding of one's own life, the process of aging contributes to personal maturity.
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Phoo, Evone Y. M. "Growing Hope." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 60, no. 5 (July 1, 2020): 583–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022167820937510.
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The experience of COVID-19 is a novel experience for most of us and has brought forth existential anxieties and questions, such as that of our vulnerabilities, responsibilities, existential guilt, fear of life and death, freedom and isolation, and hope and despair. This article reflects the author’s existential journey during the lockdown of COVID-19, as the author pondered on the deeper meanings of this experience, and how hope can be found amid this crisis.
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Suntsova, Ya S. "EXISTENTIAL FULFILLMENT OF ALCOHOLICS AND DRUG ADDICTS." Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series Philosophy. Psychology. Pedagogy 31, no. 1 (April 15, 2021): 74–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2412-9550-2021-31-1-74-82.
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The article is devoted to the study of existential fulfillment of people with alcohol and drug dependence. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the abuse of psychoactive substances and alcoholic beverages is an international problem. As a consequence of deep problems of the individual, drug addiction and alcoholism affect most areas of human life, destroying it, including its existential fulfillment, which acts as a focus of the individual to find the meaning of existence and build their own destiny. The purpose of the research was to study the existential fulfillment of people with drug and alcohol dependence. The Mann-Whitney U-test for independent samples was used to determine the differences in the expression of the indicators. During the study it was found that in the subjects (N = 60) with drug and alcohol dependence such components of existential fulfillment as meaning-life orientations and existentiality, have a low level of expression, the meaning-life crisis is highly expressed.
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Rozin, Vadim Markovich. "Existential challenges of modernity and vector for their solution." Культура и искусство, no. 1 (January 2021): 12–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0625.2021.1.34755.
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This article reviews the challenges and problems of modernity, as well as discusses the ideas and vectors for their solution. The first problem is demotes as the crisis of modern culture and the need to preserve life on the planet. It is associated with the nature and development of European sociality, which generated the ecological crisis, pandemic, and other problems. The author argues that the culture of modernity ceases and is about to be replaced by another culture (future culture). The second problem delineates “social theodicy”, i.e. development of attitude towards increasing evil. The main aspects of this phenomenon are discussed. The third problem pointed by the author, is the problem of salvation and righteous life. In this regard are examined two different models that determine cultural life: semantic view of life of the entire society, and scenarios of individual life. Comparison is conducted on the scenarios of individual life of the Middle Ages and Modern Age; the uncertainty of the latter is underlined (if not readiness for Parousia, then what: engagement in implementation of the project of modernity, but pursuing which purpose – enrichment, success, happiness, fulfillment of duty?). The pattern of the individual scenario of future culture is outlined. Within its framework, a person must solve the following dilemma –on the one hand, human is finite and mortal, while on the other, as a human of history and culture – infinite and immortal. The solution to this dilemma is offered. In conclusion, the author discusses the anchors that the person of the transitional era can rely on: critical and reflexive thinking, family ties, identity, creativity and art.
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Fuchs, Christian. "Everyday Life and Everyday Communication in Coronavirus Capitalism." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 18, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 375–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1167.
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In 2020, the coronavirus crisis ruptured societies and their everyday life around the globe. This article is a contribution to critically theorising the changes societies have undergone in the light of the coronavirus crisis. It asks: How have everyday life and everyday communication changed in the coronavirus crisis? How does capitalism shape everyday life and everyday communication during this crisis?
Section 2 focuses on how social space, everyday life, and everyday communication have changed in the coronavirus crisis. Section 3 focuses on the communication of ideology in the context of coronavirus by analysing the communication of coronavirus conspiracy stories and false coronavirus news.
The coronavirus crisis is an existential crisis of humanity and society. It radically confronts humans with death and the fear of death. This collective experience can on the one hand result in new forms of solidarity and socialism or can on the other hand, if ideology and the far-right prevails, advance war and fascism. Political action and political economy are decisive factors in such a profound crisis that shatters society and everyday life.
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Vötter, Bernadette. "Crisis of Meaning and Subjective Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Resilience and Self-Control among Gifted Adults." Behavioral Sciences 10, no. 1 (December 26, 2019): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs10010015.
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Meaning in life is positively associated with mental and physical health, while a crisis of meaning is a painful existential state that is defined as a perceived lack of meaning. An earlier study has shown that academically high-achieving adults mostly experience existential fulfilment, while intellectually gifted adults have a disproportionally high risk of suffering from a crisis of meaning, which can weaken their potential fulfilment in life. To uncover the underlying mechanisms of how an existential crisis affects gifted adults’ mental health, this study examines the longitudinal relationship between crisis of meaning and subjective well-being via two mediators: self-control and resilience. A multiple mediation model was tested with longitudinal data (two times of measurement) of two gifted groups: intellectually gifted adults (HIQ; N = 100; 55% female) and academically high-achieving adults (HAA; N = 52; 29% female). Results suggest group differences: HIQ had higher crisis of meaning and lower self-control than the HAA. HIQ’s resilience (but not their self-control) and HAA’s self-control (but not their resilience) mediated the relationship between crisis of meaning and subjective well-being. These findings give initial insights about the distinct psychological needs of gifted adults and their different paths toward subjective well-being. These insights can be applied in future giftedness research, talent development programs, or counseling to support gifted individuals in living up to their potential. Thus, HIQ could benefit particularly from supporting their ability to cope with adversity, while HAA could benefit particularly from strengthening their willpower to modify undesired emotions, behaviors, and desires.
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Višňovský, Emil. "On the value of human life." Ethics & Bioethics 7, no. 1-2 (June 1, 2017): 85–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ebce-2017-0003.
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Abstract The author reflects on the issue of the value of human life in the contexts of current “posthuman” era. There is a host of evidence that the value of human for human beings themselves has been radically reduced or ignored, or replaced by other non-human values, and even neglected. The axiological crisis of humanity, as envisioned by Nietzsche, has become the existential and moral crisis of humanity today. No matter how contemporary technological culture challenges the traditional values, the ancient questions of “how to live?”, “what makes us happy?”, and “what makes life significant?” are still here with us and provide even greater challenges to every individual. The author points to pluralist ways of how to deal with these questions including the “stoic pragmatism” among them.
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Andrijauskas, Antanas. "Reflections of an Existential Crisis in Søren Kierkegaard’s Aesthetic Conception." Dialogue and Universalism 29, no. 2 (2019): 29–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/du201929219.
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This article considers the principles of philosophical thinking in Søren Kierkegaard’s nonclassical aesthetics. Special attention is given to his radical critique of “false” and “impersonal” rationalism. This does not only mean the rejection of the traditional principles of classical metaphysics which claims “universality” and “universal meaning.” Kierkegaard also bases his philosophy on individual human life, or, in other words, personal existence with its unique inner world. His critique is more profound than that by Arthur Schopenhauer. Kierkegaard develops his own philosophy of “existential crisis,” opposing subjective will and internal changes to abstract thinking and external influences. Kierkegaard’s works initiate the critical or nonclassical stage in Western aesthetics. The main place in it is occupied by the idea of the disharmony of the world: its subjective reflection is “split” consciousness that has lost contact with the traditional concepts of harmony, humanism, goodness, beauty and philosophy of art.
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Рукин, Александр Валентинович. "HUMAN SEARCH FOR HIMSELF AND HIS LIFE." Вестник Тверского государственного университета. Серия: Философия, no. 4(54) (December 10, 2020): 89–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.26456/vtphilos/2020.4.089.
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Цель статьи - раскрыть особенности существования человека в условиях жизненной бифуркации. Процедура исследования определяется анализом реальной жизнедеятельности людей и моделированием взаимодействия внутриличностных информационных процессов и внешних информационных потоков. Основными методами исследования являются рефлексия и мысленное моделирование. Результаты проведенного исследования свидетельствуют о возникновении в точках жизненной бифуркации неопределенности и непредсказуемости тенденций развития внутриличностного информационного мира индивида и его жизненного пути. Жизненная бифуркация - это особый период существования человека в условиях глубокого экзистенциального кризиса, обусловливающего коренные изменения во внутриличностном информационном мире человека и его жизненном пути. Проведенное исследование развивает философские представления о сущностных характеристиках человека и его индивидуальной жизни. The purpose of the article is to reveal the peculiarities of human existence under the conditions of life bifurcation. The research procedure is based on the analysis of the real life of people and modeling the interaction of intrapersonal information processes and external information flows. The main applied research methods are reflection and modeling. The results of the study indicate the emergence of uncertainty and unpredictability at the points of life bifurcation of the development trends of the intrapersonal information world of the individual and his life path. Life bifurcation is defined as a special period of a person's existence under the conditions of a deep existential crisis. An existential crisis leads to changes in the intrapersonal information world and personal life path. The conducted research widens the understanding horizons of the essential characteristics of a person and individual life.
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Ertem, Elif. "A Feminist Critique of “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”: A Trapped Young Woman in the Dream of a Man." Kadın/Woman 2000, Journal for Women's Studies 22, no. 1 (July 18, 2021): 167–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.33831/jws.v22i1.220.
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Written and directed by Charlie Kaufman, I’m Thinking of Ending Things recently metwith viewers of Netflix and brought the controversy. The film is in the focus of criticism as wellas the likes, praise, and applause. The film is an adaptation from the Canadian writer Iain Reid’sbestselling namesake novel. Neither the book nor the film is not intended to be a feminist study,although it argues to show the existential crisis and the inner-voices of a young woman character.Instead, this piece reflects the subjective interpretations of dreams, memories, and a man’s life,Jake. What makes this piece a subject of feminist critique is the promised story of the movieand the starting point of the movie. This movie promises the audience to hear the voice of ayoung woman going through an existential crisis, making her wonder about her story.
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Lanovenko, Yu. "Psychodiagnosis of Existential Experiences of Youth." Herald of Kiev Institute of Business and Technology 39, no. 1 (March 28, 2019): 38–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.37203/kibit.2019.39.08.
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There are many problems in psychological reality that make it impossible for any empirical study to be due to the lack of adequate psychodiagnostic tools. The purpose of this article is to select psychodiagnostic tools that would provide an adequate picture of the characteristics of the experiences of young people their transition period. The existential philosophy became the theoretical basis for revealing the profound and essential content of the normative crisis of adolescence since it was in the works of philosophers in this direction that an attempt was made to reveal the inner world of man in his specific identity. Adaptation of the existential paradigm to psychological practice was made by humanistic psychology, which put forward the principle of focusing on the individual subject and study the holistic personality of an average person as the central methodological postulate. Authors used ideographic or phenomenological methods during the research. Hence, the requirements for choosing an adequate methodical admission of our study were: 1) the possibility of receiving in-depth information about the inner experience of the investigated since this is the level of self-knowledge at which the subject reveals his existence; 2) the ability of the chosen methodology to reveal the individual characteristics of each respondent's maturity; 3) the need to analyze how exactly adulthood influenced the realization of primary existential integration (as a new feature of adolescence) and the subsequent life of the subject; it is about realizing the principle of unity of the entire life path of the respondent, revealing the integrity and continuity of the events of his inner world. Among the existing methodical techniques that can directly lead to the phenomenon under study, we can distinguish the method of conversation, which became for us the fundamental and specified in the exact method of an in-depth interview. The article further provides a methodological justification for receiving in-depth interviews to explore adolescent existential experiences.
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Ulyukin, I. M., N. M. Pilnik, V. N. Emelyanov, V. N. Bolekhan, E. S. Orlova, S. G. Kuzmin, and V. B. Dergachev. "Fundamental life motivations and prerequisites for their realization in young men." Bulletin of the Russian Military Medical Academy 20, no. 1 (March 15, 2018): 154–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/brmma12283.
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Аbstract. Quality of life of young men in the view of existential compliance is considered. In its most general form, the term «existence» means «specifically human way of being», the main characteristic of which is the freedom of choice, that is the way of being a person, when he is constantly in a situation that asks him: «How does a man will be a person in this situation?». А person’s subjective assessment of his life was investigated by the technique of A. Langle and K. Orgler «Scale of Existence» in 42 practically healthy young men (24,12±1,1 years). Scores diagnosed on such scales as Self-distancing, Self-Transcendence, Freedom, Responsibility, Personality, Existentiality, and Fulfillment testify to the absence of grounds for the development of existential crisis (for a crisis of subjective evaluation of one’s own life). Thus, with the right medical and psychological support of young people, they have the ability to cope with themselves and with the world, and the feasibility of interaction with the internal and external demands and proposals presented to circumstances, correlating with their own values. At the same time, one should keep in mind that a possible conflict can lead to nervous breakdowns, decrease in the level of professional health (a professional fitness). In order to prevent this, it is necessary to identify persons at risk and prevent possible psychosocial adaptation disorders in advance, using direct methods of psychodiagnostic. To this end, both methods of psycho-counseling and solving personal problems through the provision of advice or other assistance are recommended.
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Ventegodt, Sören, Birgitte Clausen, and Joav Merrick. "Clinical Holistic Medicine: The Case Story of Anna. II. Patient Diary as a Tool in Treatment." Scientific World JOURNAL 6 (2006): 2006–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2006.334.
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In spite of extreme childhood sexual and violent abuse, a 22-year-old young woman, Anna, healed during holistic existential therapy. New and highly confrontational therapeutic tools were developed and used to help this patient (like acceptance through touch and acupressure through the vagina). Her vulva and introitus were scarred from repeated brutal rape, as was the interior of her mouth. During therapy, these scars were gently contacted and the negative emotional contents released. The healing was in accordance with the advanced holistic medical toolbox that uses (1) love, (2) trust, (3) holding, and (4) helping the patient to process and integrate old traumas.The case story clearly revealed the philosophical adjustments that Anna made during treatment in response to the severe childhood abuse. These adjustments are demonstrated by her diary, where sentences contain both the feelings and thoughts of the painful present (the gestalt) at the time of the abuse, thus containing the essence of the traumas, making the repression of the painful emotions possible through the change in the patients philosophical perspective. Anna's case gives a unique insight into the process of traumatization (pathogenesis) and the process of healing (salutogenesis). At the end of the healing, Anna reconnected her existence to the outer world in a deep existential, suicidal crisis and faced her choice of life or death. She decided to live and, in this process, assumed existential responsibility, which made her able to step out of her mental disease. The advanced holistic toolbox seems to help patients heal even from the worst childhood abuse. In spite of the depth of the existential crisis, holistic existential therapy seems to support existential responsibility well and thus safe for the patients.
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Rudnicki, Maciej. "Legal and economic dilemmas of sustainable development in times of global crisis." Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae 18, no. 5 (December 31, 2020): 243–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.21697/seb.2020.18.5.21.
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The starting point for the reflections were a range of issues bordering philosophy, morality, economy and law, regarding the rational management of natural resources and protection of the natural environment, as well as the regulation and forming of peoples’ attitudes and behaviours in relation to the natural environment, and the setting of legal boundaries for those behaviours and sanctions for crossing them. The state of the natural environment has a very strong influence on the fulfilment of existential human needs. Humans strive for satisfactory life of appropriate quality, and often have to make choices between various goods. Unfortunately, ecological properties are very often treated last of all in the decision-making hierarchy, and are usually considered inferior to, for example, material prosperity or social comfort. Treating the ecological properties as such, often results in them going unnoticed overall, and very soon leads to permanent and negative changes that directly affect human life and the environment, as well as having a negative effect on health. Therefore, such extraordinarily essential conditions for choosing and fulfilling ecological needs as regards first-class existential needs that have a vital influence on the quality of life and ecological awareness, are based chiefly on understanding the rules of sustainable development. Should the development of civilisation be ruled by economy, or should the basis of that development be protection and maintenance of natural environmental resources? Or maybe the most sensible option is to balance economic, social and ecological aims? The problem pinpointed in this way highlights the importance in life of global community, and may for years induce consideration and reflection.
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Koteneva, A. V., and S. A. Kobzarev. "Features of the value-semantic sphere of rescuers with different levels of professional socio-psychological adaptation." Social Psychology and Society 10, no. 1 (2019): 35–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/sps.2019100103.
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Currently, the research of personal resources of professional adaptation rescuers is socially significant, as extreme factors and activity conditions impose increased requirements for professionals, their professional and psychological training. The results of the empirical study of the features of adaptability, values and meanings of rescuers with different levels of professional socio-psychological adaptation are presented in the article. The survey involved 60 employees of the “Fire and rescue center”, all of them are men: the average age — 38.5 years; average experience — 11.7 years. The results showed that the professional adaptation success of rescuers is largely determined by the level of personal adaptive capacity, and its specific components — neuro-mental stability, communication skills, moral normativity. The material reward, spiritual satisfaction, achievements and social contacts were the most significant values for all specialists. However, the professional socio-psychological adaptation success increases if these values relate with the professional sphere of life. Existential values (acceptance of life and itself, ontological security, responsibility, death acceptance, the presence of crisis situation meaning and its concept) are the basis for both professional activities of rescuers and their adaptation to extreme conditions. At the same time, rescuers with a high level of professional socio-psychological adaptation have such characteristics as integration of life and death meanings in their crisis situation concept, acceptance of life changes, understanding of life as an opportunity to realize existential motives and meanings, ignoring death feelings and experiences.
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Jeliński, Julian. "Nihilism and the Roots of Crisis in American Democracy: A Diagnosis of Cornel West." Journal of Education Culture and Society 5, no. 2 (January 6, 2020): 43–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs20142.43.52.
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Cornel West’s diagnosis of the crisis of the American democracy is the subject matter of this article. Analyzing the condition of the American democracy of the end of XX and the beginning of XXI centuries, C. West focused on the individual, existential character of the crisis. The diagnosed state had according to him much affect not only on political issues, but first and foremost on the spread of nihilism among American citizens. Nihilism – is understood in the C. West as senselessness of life and low self-esteem is the subject matter of this article.
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Boucher, Nicole. "Jacques Laforest. Introduction à la gérontologie. Croissance et déclin. Montréal: Hurtubise HMH, 1989, pp. 166." Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement 12, no. 1 (1993): 102–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0714980800008308.
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ABSTRACTJacques Laforest provides an introduction to gerontology viewed as an interdisciplinary field of study and reflection on old age. Old age is defined from a developmental perspective as two opposite yet complementary processes: those of decline and growth. The final stage of life is marked by an existential crisis of one's identity, autonomy and belonging. Researchers and specialists from all disciplines are invited to contribute towards an understanding and a resolution of this crisis. The purpose of this publication is to initiate the process of integrating knowledge and reflections on gerontology. This goal is achieved.
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Scott, Eugenie C. "Problem Concepts in Evolution: Cause, Purpose, Design, and Chance." Paleontological Society Papers 5 (October 1999): 169–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1089332600000589.
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The American student population is largely religious and a significant minority rejects evolution. Evolution and other scientific theories are restricted to explaining through natural cause (methodological materialism), but because evolution has existential connotations, many students confuse the ability to explain through natural cause with a conclusion that therefore God does not exist (philosophical materialism). To some, if God does not exist, life has no purpose or meaning, and acceptance of evolution brings on an existential crisis. Differing understandings of four concepts (cause, purpose, design, and chance) commonly used in the teaching of evolution may exacerbate antievolutionism if students conflate their own existential meanings of these terms with the definitions within science. Cause, purpose, and design to many students include the notion of supernatural cause, purpose, and design, whereas chance is often thought to mean “purposeless” or “random” (in the sense of unpredictable.) Professors should teach evolution in a religiously-neutral fashion, thus allowing religious students to find compatibility between their religious views and science.
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Aich, Tapas Kumar. "Existential Psychology & Buddha Philosophy: It's Relevance in Nurturing a Healthy Mind." Journal of Psychiatrists' Association of Nepal 3 (January 2, 2015): 22–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jpan.v3i3.11836.
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The term "existentialism" have been coined by the French philosopher Gabriel Marcel in the mid-1940s and adopted by Jean-Paul Sartre. The label has been applied retrospectively to philosophers like Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers and Søren Kierkegaard and other 19th and 20th century philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences, generally held that the focus of philosophical thought should be to deal with the conditions of existence of the individual person and his or her emotions, actions, responsibilities, and thoughts. The early 19th century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, posthumously regarded as ‘the father of existentialism’, maintained that the individual solely has the responsibilities of giving one's own life meaning and living that life passionately and sincerely, in spite of many existential obstacles and distractions including despair, angst, absurdity, alienation, and boredom. Over the last century, experts have written on many commonalities between Buddhism and various branches of modern western psychology like phenomenological psychology, psychoanalytical psychotherapy, humanistic psychology, cognitive psychology and existential psychology. In comparison to other branches of psychology, less have been studied and talked on the commonalities between Buddhist philosophy and modern existential psychology that have been propagated in the west. Buddha said that the life is ‘suffering’. Existential psychology speaks of ontological anxiety (dread, angst). Buddha said that ‘suffering is due to attachment’. Existential psychology also has some similar concepts. We cling to things in the hopes that they will provide us with a certain benefit. Buddha said that ‘suffering can be extinguished’. The Buddhist concept of nirvana is quite similar to the existentialists' freedom. Freedom has, in fact, been used in Buddhism in the context of freedom from rebirth or freedom from the effects of karma. For the existentialist, freedom is a fact of our being, one which we often ignore. Finally, Buddha says that ‘there is a way to extinguish suffering’. For the existential psychologist, the therapist must take an assertive role in helping the client become aware of the reality of his or her suffering and its roots. As a practising psychiatrist, clinician, therapist we often face patients with symptoms of depression where aetiology is not merely a reactive one, not an interpersonal conflict, not simply a cognitive distortion! Patients mainly present with some form of personal ‘existential crisis’. Unless we understand and address these existential questions, we probably, will fail to alleviate the symptoms of depression, by merely prescribing drugs, in these patients! DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jpan.v3i3.11836