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“Why me?”: Qualitative research on why patients ask, what they mean, how they answer and what factors and processes are involved

open access: yesSSM - Mental Health, 2023
Patients often ask, “why me?” but questions arise regarding what this statement means, how, when and why patients ask, how they answer and why. Interviews were conducted as part of several qualitative research studies exploring how patients view and cope
Robert Klitzman
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The Great Escape: The Role of Self-esteem and Self-related Cognition in Terror Management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Integrating terror management theory and objective self-awareness theory, we propose the existential escape hypothesis, which states that people with low self-esteem should be especially prone to escaping self-awareness as a distal response to thoughts
Anderson   +114 more
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Palliative care provider attitudes toward existential distress and treatment with psychedelic-assisted therapies

open access: yesBMC Palliative Care, 2021
Background Existential distress is a significant source of suffering for patients facing life-threatening illness. Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies (PAT) are novel treatments that have shown promise in treating existential distress, but openness to ...
Halsey Niles   +3 more
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Qualitative study of job identity based on the existential components of beginner family counselors [PDF]

open access: yesFaṣlnāmah-i Farhang Mushavirah va Ravān/Darmānī, 2023
The purpose of this research was to qualitatively investigate the occupational identity based on the existential components of new family counselors.
milad saeidi   +2 more
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An existential model of addiction

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2021
Introduction Despite existentialism positing that existential concerns are universal, research into the existential issues related to addiction remains scarce. An existential model of addiction is lacking.
G. Grech
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Finding Meaning Amidst COVID-19: An Existential Positive Psychology Model of Suffering

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
The global COVID-19 pandemic has created a crisis of suffering. We conceptualize suffering as a deeply existential issue that fundamentally changes people indelible ways and for which there are no easy solutions.
Daryl R. Van Tongeren   +1 more
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No Rest for the Wicked? Symposium on Irene McMullin’s Existential Flourishing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Irene McMullin’s Existential Flourishing (Cambridge University Press, 2018) weaves together virtue ethics and existential phenomenology: the influence of Heidegger and Levinas, in particular, is clear throughout. This paper provides a summary of McMullin’
Golob, Sacha
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Existential distress in cancer: Alleviating suffering from fundamental loss and change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
A severe life threatening illness can challenge fundamental expectations about security, interrelatedness with others, justness, controllability, certainty, and hope for a long and fruitful life.
Kissane, David, Vehling, Sigrun
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Can non-theists appropriately feel existential gratitude? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Does it make sense for non-theists to feel gratitude for their existence? The question arises because gratitude is typically thought to be directed towards a person to whom one is grateful.
Lacewing, Michael
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How is Existential Threat Related to Intergroup Conflict?Introducing the Multidimensional Existential Threat(MET) Model

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
Existential threat lies at the heart of intergroup conflict, but the literature on existential concerns lacks clear conceptualization and integration. To address this problem, we offer a new conceptualization and measurement of existential threat.
Gilad Hirschberger   +3 more
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