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Humanistic/Existential Theories

May: Existential Psychology

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1		The Danish philosopher and theologian ____________________ is usually credited with being the first modern existentialist.


2		Existentialists hold that existence takes precedence over ____________________.


3		May spent part of his youth as a wandering ___________________, traveling through Europe, just as Erik Erikson had done a few years earlier.


4		Existentialists emphasize the balance between _________________ and responsibility.


5		Being-in-the-world, or ______________________, means to exist in the world or to be at one with the world.


6		_______________________ is the being-in-the-world concept that refers to our relations with other people.


7		The most obvious avenue of _____________________ is death.


8		Eigenwelt refers to our relationship with ______________________.


9		People experience _____________________ when they become aware that their existence might be destroyed.


10		Guilt and anxiety are __________________________ in the sense that they refer to the nature of being and not specific situations.


11		Intentionality and _____________________ are inseparable.


12		May defined ______________________ as “a state in which something does matter.”


13		May suggested a union between love and ______________________.


14		___________________ is a nonsexual love between two people, for example, a sister and brother.


15		Healthy people are able to face their ________________________ and to assume their freedom.


16		May defined _______________________ as “the individual’s capacity to know that he [she] is the determined one.”


17		Freedom comes from understanding our ______________________.


18		May believed that _______________________ are conscious and unconscious belief systems that provide explanations for personal and social problems.


19		According to May, apathy and ______________________ are the spiritual illnesses of our time.

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