{"id":71865,"date":"2025-11-14T21:50:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/existential-humanistic-theory\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:50:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:50:54","slug":"existential-humanistic-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/existential-humanistic-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Existential-humanistic theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A theory that proceeds from a philosophical-humanistic perspective that considers psychosomatic symptoms as a reflection of the existential crisis experienced by a person as a result of the loss of the meaning of life, a sense of alienation or conflict with oneself. When a person cannot achieve a balance between their inner values and the demands of reality, or experiences chronic frustration without expressing it, their body becomes a tool for translating this crisis into physical symptoms. Treatment is seen as a way to restore the meaning of life, free a person from repression and increase his awareness of himself and his needs.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A theory that proceeds from a philosophical-humanistic perspective that considers psychosomatic symptoms as a reflection of the existential crisis experienced by a person as a result of the loss of the meaning of life, a sense of alienation or conflict with oneself. When a person cannot achieve a balance between their inner values and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[287],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-14-key-psychological-concepts-in-psychosomatic-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}