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Surge na Europa antes da Segunda Guerra Mundial e desenvolve-se depois dela paralelamente ao existencialismo filosófico. Nomes como os de Allport, Rogers, Froom e Maslow alinham de outra forma nesta corrente, que aparece como reacção ao racionalismo de uma certa psicologia positivista. Tem como postulado que a experiência imediata do sujeito permite uma melhor aproximação da realidade que a tentativa racionalista. A partir de uma maior proximidade à análise, vai defender a necessidade de uma atitude mais compreensiva. Os fundamentos teóricos surgem pela expressão filosófica de Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre e Merleau-Ponty. |
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Although the influence of existentialism on literature, art, and philosophy is not very surprising, its influence on psychology might be to some people. Understanding it better should help make it clear, however, that existentialism is less a philosophical school than a broader cultural movement that has involved a number of intellectual pursuits — all focused on the existence and importance of the individual human being. Traditional psychological research has been involved primarily with trying to understand the various drives and motivations behind human actions. This attention to discrete substances and relationships means that we arrive at generalizations about humanity, but we can lose sight of the human being we were looking at to be begin with — the human being who makes things happen and who acts in the world. This is not to say that existentialist psychologists aren’t interested in looking at things like hormone levels, neurological scans, and similar data — their point, however, is that such information is very limited in its ability to give you information about any single individual person. For existential psychologists, individuals humans are both beings and becoming — always in flux, always more than the sum of their parts. |
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