existential psychology

n. A general approach to psychology that employs an examination of the phenomena of experience as its materials without reference to anything outside experience. Thus there is no theory in which inferred mental processes produce experience, simply an examination of experience itself. It notes that in experience there is a sense of choice and anxiety over choosing, that some choices have a sense of moving one toward a felt but undefined goal while others do not, and our experience of meaning in life is dependent on making choices which seem fraught with meaning despite the anxiety they involve.