ABSTRACT
An approach to psychotherapy, which differs in many respects from those already reviewed, is rational-emotive psychotherapy developed by Albert Ellis. The need to love and be loved exists throughout our life and requires little elaboration. The need to feel worthwhile, while viewed as a separate need, is usually closely related to the previous one. It is theoretically possible to love and be loved, however, and not feel that one is worthwhile. Somewhat in contrast to the two systems of psychotherapy just reviewed, are developments usually referred to as existential therapies. The existential orientations to psychotherapy were derived from existential philosophy and from the phenomenological movement in philosophy. The emphasis in existential philosophy and psychology is on the nature of man, his existence, and the meaning of this existence for the individual. Frankl acknowledges the past importance of psychoanalysis and Adlerian individual psychology, but believes that each has been one-sided in its emphasis.
