Person-Zentriert: Zur Personierung der Existenz – eine „Außensicht“

Abstract

The actualization of the person. Existential analytical contributions to the personization of existence. In Existential Analysis and Person Centered Psychotherapy the key to existence is seen in the activation of the person. A procedure addressing and seeking to mobilize the resources of the person is therefore essential in every psychotherapy. — The dynamic basic activities of the person are illuminated (seeing — integrating — encountering), and subsequently the prerequisites for the development of the self are described (attention — empathy — taking position). In interaction with the self, the person can become effective in presence
and in existence. Deep down however, the person resonates in a spiritual depth with being and life — subsequently becoming an inner counterpart due to the self. An activation of the person can solely follow, when originating from the characteristics of the person and the interplay with the self. This is how the human being can attain, via personhood, the essence of life: come into contact with being, in which the personal meaning of existence unfolds.