얄롬의 실존적 심리치료와 니체사상

Abstract

Today, man lives with ‘neurotic anxiety’ such as loneliness and isolation,as well as feelings of loss, emptiness, anxiety, and meaninglessness of life. This reflects the existential neurosis of the modern man. Associated with frustration and conflict, as well as the fundamental human desire for meaning and goal of life, existential therapy tries to heal the suffering of people from existential frustration. Based on the understanding of human existence, particularly Yalom’s existential psychotherapy is attracting attention in various modern psychotherapies. Yalom’s psychotherapy utilizes much philosophical wisdom. Among many philosophers, he was especially absorbed in Nietzsche whom he regarded as the root of his psychotherapy. In the philosophy of Nietzsche, he saw the potentiality toward the inner process of self-realization of mankind. Yalom has tried to restore Nietzsche’s concealed contribution in the history of psychotherapy and to discover the roots of psychotherapy from Nietzsche. This article aims to treat how Nietzsche’s thought contributes to the healing of existential neurosis with which Yalom is concerned. For this purpose, this article treats what existential psychotherapy means, and what relevance it has with Nietzsche’s thought and how Nietzsche was used in his psychotherapy or its method. I will try to bring to light what Yalom’s cross psychotherapy and philosophical therapy means, and how Yalom’s existential psychotherapy implicates philosophical counseling and therapy today. I will find here the possi bility to build the theory and methods of philosophical counseling and therapy by focusing on Yalom’s existential psychotherapy.