Existentialist Philosophy Quiz

Victor Frankl formed his ideas based on his unique experience as a:

• patient who endured a three-year battle with tuberculosis.

• psychology teacher and later a philosopher.

• survivor of a Nazi concentration camp.

• patient and student of Sigmund Freud.

Anxiety and dread stemming from the conflict between faith and reason was a major focus of Christian existentialist:

• Neitzsche.

• Rogers.

• Sartre.

• Kierkegaard.

Existential therapists believe that, fundamentally, their clients' anxiety and guilt is caused by their inevitable confrontation with:

• difficult people in their lives.

• their unconscious, intrapsychic struggles.

• the ultimate concerns of life.

• their problematic behaviors.

Before becoming an existential therapist, Rollo May trained and worked for two years as a:

• prison guard

• Rollo May worked in all of these fields during his life

• medical doctor

• protestant minister

The first psychoanalysists to attempt to incorporate existential themes into their work were Medard Boss and:

• James Bugental

• Sidney Jourard

• Ludwig Binswanger

• Rollo May

If you are injured in an auto accident, and yet disregard your own pain to help others, you are likely experiencing what existentialist call:

• authenticity.

• self-transcendence.

• existential guilt.

• generosity.

Existentialists view unhealthy functioning as all of the following EXCEPT:

• Existentialists view all of the above as signs of unhealthy functioning.

• experiencing anxiety.

• being overly preoccupied with the givens of existence.

• denying the givens of existence.

For existential therapists, clients are exhibiting resistance when they:

• do not take responsibility for their own lives.

• repress memories of traumatic childhood events.

• have unconscious feelings of anger toward the therapist.

• fail to follow the therapist's instructions.

Existentialists would say that even prisoners of war have freedom because they:

• could have chosen not to go to war and thus not have gotten captured.

• are allowed certain human rights under the rules of war.

• have the capacity to choose their attitudes and behaviors

• Existentials would say that prisoners of war no longer have freedom.

Your client, Carly, tells you she experiences anxiety when she thinks about how meaningless her life is. As an existential therapist, you conceive this as:

• existential anxiety.

• neurotic anxiety.

• cognitive anxiety.

• borderline anxiety.