Personal Existential Analysis

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The Personal Existential Analysis (PEA) is a central method of existential analysis . It represents a guide for the (psychotherapeutic) process of developing an autonomous, authentic, emotionally fulfilled, meaningful and personally responsible existence. The development of the PEA took place in the years 1988 to 1990 by Alfried Längle and marks the personal turning point in existential analysis, through which subjective experience, emotions, personal processes before, during and after the realization of existence ( basic motivations ) and biography moved into the focus of existential analytical psychotherapy . As a result, the meaning theorem , which Viktor Frankl viewed as central to existence, was subordinated to the personal processes and understood as a result variable in the context of psychotherapy. The concept of meaning rarely proved to be suitable as a direct psychotherapeutic instrument.

The PEA is based on Längle's procedural concept of the person, according to which the person realizes his being in a dialogical exchange with the world over three steps. They mark the three basic abilities of personal encounters, are constitutive for this and create the inner (subjective-intimate) as well as outer (encountering) access to the person. The three abilities always form a unity in dialogical events as well as in subjective experience. This expresses the openness, selectivity and interactivity of being a person.

Process-related person concept of the PEA

The PEA method consists of four steps:

PEA 0 (Descriptive preliminary phase) Description of the
content of the facts (problems); Relationship establishment; cognitive attitude of the therapist.
PEA 1 (Phenomenological Analysis)
raising the impression (primary emotion and phenomenal content); therapeutic attitude: empathy.
PEA 2 (Authentic restructuring)
Incorporation of the impression of existing value references (understand - decide - decide); inner position (integrated emotion); therapeutic attitude: confrontational-encounter.
PEA 3 (Self-actualization)
Working out the adequate expression as an acting response (external statement); protective-encouraging attitude of the therapist.

literature

  • A. Längle: Textbook on Existential Analysis. Basics. Facultas WUV, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7089-0958-5 , pp. 86-105.
  • A. Längle: Existential Analysis. In: A. Längle, A. Holzhey-Kunz: Existential analysis and Daseinsanalyse. UTB (Facultas), Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-2966-5 , pp. 29–180.
  • A. Längle: Personal Existential Analysis. In: G. Stumm, A. Pritz (Ed.): Dictionary of Psychotherapy. Springer, Vienna / New York 2000, ISBN 3-211-99130-1 , p. 505.
  • A. Längle (Ed.): Practice of Personal Existential Analysis. Facultas, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85076-514-8 .
  • A. Längle: The anthropological dimension of the Personal Existential Analysis (PEA). In: Existential Analysis. 16 (1), Vienna 1999, pp. 18-25.
  • A. Längle: Personal Existential Analysis. In: Korean Academy of Psychotherapists (Ed.): Psychotherapy East and West. Integration of psychotherapies. Seoul 1995, pp. 348-364.
  • A. Längle: Personal Existential Analysis. In: A. Längle (Ed.): Value Encounter Phenomena and methodological approaches. GLE-Verlag, Vienna 1993, pp. 133-160.

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