Authenticity and Our Basic Existential Dilemmas

Abstract

The core element of existential psychology is its theory of the existentials or the basic existential dilemmas. Existential therapy is helping the client to find his or her own feet in relation to these existential dilemmas. The article enumerates the basic existential dilemmas and sketches their relation to the phenomenon of authenticity. The significance of dealing with authenticity is then discussed in relation to existential therapy.