{"id":35,"date":"2023-12-03T13:13:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T19:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/exist\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2025-06-09T22:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T03:02:22","slug":"existential-psychology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/exist\/intro\/existential-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Existential Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a classic comedy routine, Bob Newhart is an \u201cexistential therapist.\u201d He tells each client the same thing: \u201cJust deal with it.\u201d When a patient is obsessive, he responds, \u201cStop it!\u201d Though the humor exaggerates the notion of existentialism, the basic concept of free will is the foundation for many existential theories of psychology.<\/p>\n<h2>Major Proponents of Existential Psychotherapy<\/h2>\n<p>The following thinkers are major proponents of existential psychotherapy or existential psychology in general:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/exist\/people\/frankl\/\">Viktor Frankl<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/exist\/people\/may\/\">Rollo May<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Irvin D. Yalom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a classic comedy routine, Bob Newhart is an \u201cexistential therapist.\u201d He tells each client the same thing: \u201cJust deal with it.\u201d When a patient&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/exist\/intro\/existential-psychology\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Existential Psychology<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"iawp_total_views":97,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,3,14,11,48],"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-overview","tag-frankl","tag-free-will","tag-general","tag-may","tag-psychology","tag-yalom","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pfiwmh-z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/exist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/exist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/exist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/exist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/exist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/exist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/exist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/258"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/exist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/exist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/exist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/exist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}