存在心理治疗评述

A Commentary of Existential Psychotherapy

摘要: 存在心理治疗是充满了哲学思想的流派，强调人们本体论层面的存在需要。该流派的理论由多位学者的理论构成，主张各异，但都持有积极的人性观，关注自由选择、责任、自我实现等主题。治疗旨在让来访者提升存在感，以本真的方式存在于世，进一步达到发挥潜能，自我实现的目的。该流派为心理治疗提供了新的视角，但也具有理论单薄，实际应用较难的缺陷。

Abstract: Existential psychotherapy is a school full of philosophical thoughts, emphasizing people’s existential needs on the ontology level. The theory of this school is composed of the different theories of several scholars, but all of them hold a positive view of human nature, focusing on such topics as free choice, responsibility and self-realization. The purpose of the psychotherapy is to let the visitors enhance the sense of existence, being in the world in authenticity, to further achieve the potential of self-realization. This school provides a new perspective for psychotherapy, but it also has some defects; for example, the theory is some kind of poor and hard to apply practically.