The contents of this chapter discuss the relationship between paradigm, theories, and models in the existentialist perspective. For existentialism we mean a specific cultural climate in the twentieth-century old Europe as well as in the USA whose philosophical paradigm has its roots in some Greek philosophers, although the Danish thinker Soren Kierkegard and the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre are among its most important exponents. We will explore just three psychological approaches of this not homogeneous movement including many different schools of thought sometimes conflicting: the phenomenological perspective, the antipsychiatry movement, and existential psychotherapies. In this temporal and conceptual excursus, we will investigate whether the existentialist paradigm has generated theories and/or models that can be qualified as particular-specific or general-integrative.
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Cusinato, M. (2012). Existentialism. In Paradigms in Theory Construction (Vol. 9781461409144, pp. 317–338). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0914-4_17
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