Soren Kierkegaard's Existential Therapy

The existential therapy is rooted in the concerns that are found in the individual’s existence. An existential therapy is not separated from psychotherapeutic practice, like behaviorism or psychoanalysis. The idea of struggling with the polarities of self, Soren Kierkegaard, who is regarded as the father of existentialism, viewed personhood as what we are and what we shall become. Kierkegaard suggests a continuous active wrestling between polarities of infinitude and finitude, possibility and necessity, and eternity and temporality. The emphasis of existentialism is the inner conflict and struggle with the realities of death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness. What is the existential view of anxiety? How might you intervene (from an