We are sharing a newly published article here- a substantive piece on “how to depolarize America” and what needs to be done to get there from the Urbana-Champaign Gazette. Includes interviews with Kirk Schneider and eight colleagues who specialize in organized efforts to build bridges among divided cultural and political groups across America: This is the 2nd part in a
By Kirk Schneider, PhD
PsychologyToday.com
May 22, 2023
Kirk Schneider has a recent article on the topic of Ernest Becker, Otto Rank and Psychotherapy as “an intimate trio.”
Key points:
We must understand our relationship to existence, not only to our parents, culture, cognition, or physiology.
Life-enhancing anxiety is the ability to live with and make the best of the depth and mystery of existence.
A key result of life-enhancing anxiety is awe-based consciousness—a sense of adventure toward all living.
Life-Enhancing Anxiety makes a bold proposal: It is not less anxiety that we need today, but more, at least of a certain kind of anxiety. Life-enhancing anxiety is the invigorating degree of anxiety needed to become passionately engaged, ethically attuned, and creatively enriched. Set against our anxiety-avoidant times, life-enhancing anxiety enables us to “live with and make the best of the depth and mystery of existence.”
Recommended Article – Julie Falk of SHP has conversations with six psychologists who represent a broad range of humanistic flavors, including (but not limited to) existential-humanistic, phenomenological, human science, constructivist, and transpersonal.
Kirk Schneider, PhD, Psychologist, EHI President and Instructor, has a new article on his PsychologyToday blog, Awakening to Awe.
The post is entitled, “What the World Needs Now Is ‘Life-Enhancing’ Anxiety” in which he posits that “one of our great problems today is too little of a certain kind of anxiety.”
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