steem needs, which the person seeks both to respect others and also be respected. We create our self-esteem through achievment, competence and recognition. Finally, after completing these four levels a person can then fulfill their own unique potiential and become self-actualized.Rogers and Maslow agreed that abnormality was a failure to develop and progress beyond acceptable standards of normality. Their suggestion to cure abnormality was to first adjust the person to a normal life, then you could work your way up from there.Existential psychology is an outgrowth of European existential philosophy, it emphasizes the difficulty of living authentically in the modern world. The condition known to them as alienation is a spiritual death, where the person is overcome with a sense of meaninglessness of life and the terror that comes with death. It is believed modern technologies effeciency has banned people from values and responsibility. The existential perspective was introduced to the United States by Pollo May, whose contribution was the antologial context, it states a person can be understood only in terms of their sense of self, also known as the center. He concluded abnormality is merely a protection from percieved threats and in administering it the therapist uses self-transcendence, the ability to see oneself as a responsible, growing person.Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl brought about another theory, the will-to-meaning. It is the struggle of humans to find some reason for their complicated existence, which could only be found through values of love, work, other people, of the world and confrontation of personal sufferings. For those blocked in the process Frankl evolved a treatment stradgedy of logotherapy. The therapists role is to confront the patient with existential responsibility and lead them to choose values. Both therapist and patient then work togeather toward a better approach to life through the meaning of val...
