Existentialism psychology

Existentialism psychology
In the book History and Systems of Psychology by James F. Brennan in 2006, psychology, existentialism is a school of psychology that is rooted in various philosophical works in the second half of the 19th century, especially Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche. However, the need to realize is that both have mindset that is very contradictory. Kierkegaard merstorasi interested in the depth of faith in the religions that have been dried up in the middle of the Copenhagen at the time. While Nietzsche's famous statement "God is dead".

Only, the differences were not as big as their differences with the earlier philosophers. They approached philosophy from the viewpoint of real human beings, human beings are involved in a variety of life challenges. Both believed that human existence can not be standardized into a rational system, religious or philosophical.

Existentialism different psychological approaches to positivistic. When the positivistic, they tried to get out of the subjectivity and see things as they are. But the existentialists believe that we can never get out of subjectivity. We can not separate subjectivity with objectivity, because they are related to each other.

The existentialist advise us to let whatever we examine. Whether it's objects, feelings, thoughts, or even human existence itself to reveal itself to us. This can be done by opening up to experience, by accepting it, although not in accordance with the philosophy, theory, or our beliefs.

Existentialist became famous for his belief that life is difficult. Physical world can give us the misery as well as give us pleasure. Social world leads us to the disappointment and loneliness as well as make us happy because of your love and affection from others.

In summary, psychological existentialism emphasizes the need to be as close as possible to the world that lived and experienced in everyday life. No need to use the theory, statistics, reduction or experiment. It is preferred that need to know what we are talking about.

But, psychology, existentialism is not really recognized as a research method. This is due to existential psychology is considered unscientific. Does not have a hypothesis or statistics. Not depend on the dependent or independent variable.

In addition, there are often misinterpreted due to a variety of the terms derived from the philosophical tradition that is only familiar with the philosophers, not psychologists. This is compounded because some of the term comes from the German and French languages ​​are very difficult to find its equivalent in English