Kirk Schneider || Existential-Humanistic Therapy

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🗓️ 27 December 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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“Adventure and awe are key to the perpetuation of vibrant, evolving lives, and in combination with technological advances may bring marvels to our emerging repertoires.” — Kirk Schneider Kirk Schneider is a psychotherapist who has taken a leading role in the advancement of existential-humanistic therapy and existential-integrative therapy. He has authored or coauthored ten books, including The Paradoxical Self, Humanity’s Dark Side, Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy, The Psychology of Existence (with Rollo May), The Polarized Mind, The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology, and Awakening to Awe. Dr. Schneider is the 2004 recipient of the Rollo May award for “outstanding and independent pursuit of new frontiers in humanistic psychology” from the Humanistic Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association. In this episode, Kirk teaches us how we can connect with the mystery and discovery in our daily lives in a way that allows us to feel, sense, imagine, create, wonder, and to feel the dysphoric feelings as well, the poignancy of sadness of hurt or anger, and in essence, experience a larger sense of life and of creative work. Kirk's seminal work in existential-humanistic therapy has helped many people be more open to new possibilities and sensitivities to oneself as well as other people, other species, and have a more profound appreciation of our fleeting time in space. Among these topics, we also discuss the following: What is existential-humanistic therapy? Kirk’s kinship with Rollo May Kirk's debate with Ken Wilbur about "ultimate consciousness" Kirk's vision of an awe-based era in the age of roboticism Kirk's vision of "depth healers" How to preserve the core of humanity in this brave new world Links The Spirituality of Awe Existential-Humanistic Therapy (2nd edition) The Deified Self: A "Centaur" Response to Wilber and the Transpersonal Movement by Kirk Schneider Rollo May: Personal Reflections and Appreciation by James F.T. Bugental --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

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0:00.0	Hello and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in.
0:13.7	Hopefully we'll also provide a glimpse into human possibility.
0:17.2	If you like what you hear today, please add a rating and review on iTunes.
0:20.8	Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast.
0:43.4	Kirk is a psychotherapist who has taken a leading role in the advancement of existential
0:47.4	humanistic therapy and existential integrative therapy.
0:50.8	He is authored a co-authored 10 books including the paradoxical self, humanity's dark side,
0:55.9	existential integrative psychotherapy, the psychology of existence with Rol May, the
1:01.1	polarized mind, the handbook of Humanistic Psychology, and Awakening to All.
1:06.3	Dr. Schneider is the 2004 recipient of the Raoul May Award for Outstanding
1:10.2	and Independent Pursuit of New Frontiers in humanistic psychology from the
1:14.0	Humanistic Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association.
1:18.0	It's a real honor to talk to you today, Kirk.
1:20.0	Well, it's an honor to talk to you too, Scott.
1:23.0	Well, I'm honored that you said that.
1:25.0	You're one of the great humanistic psychologists
1:30.0	and really integrated existential and humanistic and I just thought would you mind
1:34.7	kind of telling our listeners a little bit about what is existential humanistic therapy?
1:40.7	Yeah I'll try to give you the thumbnail sketch. I mean it's basically about two ongoing and implicit questions.
1:48.0	One is, how are you presently living? And the second is, how are you presently living and the second is how are you willing to live and both of those
1:56.8	questions really reflect the issue of freedom and responsibility.
2:04.0	The first question brings up the whole issue of
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