REFLETINDO SOBRE CONCEITOS DAS PSICOLOGIAS FENOMENOLÓGICAS/EXISTENCIAIS DE FRANKL, ROGERS E KIERKEGAARD

Abstract

One of the hallmarks of industrial revolution today is the medicalization of life. This view also influences mental treatment, distancing itself from the person's concrete life. Thusly, this article presents a view that brings psychological issues closer to the concreteness of life through the phenomenological/existential psychologies of Frankl, Rogers, and Kierkegaard. We ask: "How do the authors’ concepts of 'meaning of life', 'being oneself', and 'congruence', of these authors, relate to each of their psychologies and what can we find when comparing them? The study methodology is based on qualitative, reflective, and descriptive character. Similarities were found, such as existential tensions. Also, differences: the transparency of emotions for being congruent in Rogers and variety of tensions in Kierkegaard. We propose to reflect on an intersection of the authors' concepts for psychological help relationships, which brought the consideration of all tensions and the expression of emotions to the realization of meaning. The present work considers the congruent individual to be who he truly is. Thus, it is possible to see the authors within theoretical intersections with the boundaries of this article.