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Existential Therapy and
Human Development.
Martin Adams
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What are the characteristics of an existential phenomenological model of
human development ?
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A short history of human development
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A short history of human development
• How did I get here?
• What happens after I die?
• What shall I do in the meantime?
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Research method
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Phenomenology
• We are active interpreters and creators of our world.
• No observation we make can ever be free of assumptions.
• We co-constitute each other’s worlds
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What is the best way to describe a life?
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People see their life and the life cycle differently depending on where they
are in it
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What makes a theory existential?
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What makes a theory existential?
• Existence before essence
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What makes a theory existential?
• Existence before essence
• Personal responsibility
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What makes a theory existential?
• Existence before essence
• Personal responsibility
• Phenomenology
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‘How do we get from birth, when these paradoxes are not understood, to
existential maturity and wisdom, which is by no means guaranteed anyway,
when they are understood?
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‘Biological birth is a definitive act whereby the infant organism is precipitated into the world [....]
Under usual circumstances, the physical birth of a new living organism into the world inaugurates
rapidly ongoing processes whereby [….] the infant feels real and alive and has a sense of being an
entity with continuity in time and a location in space. In short, physical birth and biological aliveness are followed by the baby becoming
existentially born as real and alive. Usually this development is taken for granted.’ (TDS:44)
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Merleau-Ponty
• If early development has an influence on later life, then how does this happen?
• How is it that a person, who is a mass of sensations that are not directly available to another, gets the idea that an other person is in some way similar and therefore that mutual understanding is possible?
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Sartre
• Where does the sense-of-self come from and what is it – existentially?
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Sartre
• Where does the sense-of-self come from and what is it – existentially?
Since we are nothing, potentially we can be anything.
This evokes anxiety so we make ourselves into something, but this leads us into bad faith – an awareness that we are limiting our potential, our freedom
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Heidegger
• Present-at-hand
• Ready-to-hand
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Themes of an Existential Phenomenological model of
Human Development
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Themes of an Existential Phenomenological model of
Human Development
• Being in space
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Themes of an Existential Phenomenological model of
Human Development
• Being in space • Living in time
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Themes of an Existential Phenomenological model of
Human Development
• Being in space • Living in time• Loving and being loved
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Themes of an Existential Phenomenological model of
Human Development
• Being in space • Living in time• Loving and being loved• Making an autobiography
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Themes of an Existential Phenomenological model of
Human Development
• Being in space • Living in time• Loving and being loved• Making an autobiography • Struggling against adversity
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Themes of an Existential Phenomenological model of
Human Development
• Being in space • Living in time• Loving and being loved• Making an autobiography • Struggling against adversity• Living with freedom and uncertainty
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Implications for practice
• Age appropriate?
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Implications for practice
• Age appropriate?• Why now?
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Implications for practice
• Age appropriate?• Why now?• Life is change
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Implications for practice
• Age appropriate?• Why now?• Life is change• Personal responsibility
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Implications for practice
• Age appropriate?• Why now?• Life is change• Personal responsibility• Story making and story breaking
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Implications for practice
• Age appropriate?• Why now?• Life is change• Personal responsibility• Story making and story breaking• Care and autonomy
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ConclusionThe developmental model most consistent with an existential-phenomenological view is a life long process model. The ontological themes of spatiality, temporality, relationality, identity, struggle and responsibility are engaged with ontically by each particular person in their particular context, and it is the quality of this engagement that make each person distinctive.