What is Logotherapy? a) Definition Literally‚ logotherapy means ’therapy through meaning’. It’s an active-directive therapy aimed at helping people specifically with meaning crises‚ which manifest themselves either ina feeling of aimlessness or indirectly through addiction‚ alcoholism or depression. Logotherapy also employs techniques useful for phobias‚ anxiety‚ obsessive-compulsive disorders and medical ministry. Other applications include working with juvenile delinquents‚ career counselling
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What is Logotherapy? Literally‚ logotherapy means ’therapy through meaning’. It’s an active-directive therapy aimed at helping people specifically with meaning crises‚ which manifest themselves either ina feeling of aimlessness or indirectly through addiction‚ alcoholism or depression. Logotherapy also employs techniques useful for phobias‚ anxiety‚ obsessive-compulsive disorders and medical ministry. Other applications include working with juvenile delinquents‚ career counselling and helping all
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Frankl’s family lived close to Alfred Adler‚ known as the Father of Individual Psychology and Freud’s former student. At the tender age of 3‚ Frankl settled on medicine as his career choice‚ but became interested in philosophy in his teens. His decision to study psychiatry then allowed him to marry medicine and philosophy and study both. Having been born in Vienna‚ he was exposed to psychoanalysis at a young age‚ and established correspondence with Freud while still in high school. At 19‚ Frankl
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Techniques of Logotherapy Paradoxical Intention The therapist encourages the patient to intend or wish for‚ even if only for a second‚ precisely what they fear. oUsed for obsessive‚ compulsive and phobic conditions (not for suicidal or schizophrenic patients). oUseful in cases of underlying anticipatory anxiety‚ often works very quickly. oMobilises the human capacity for self-detachment‚ often with a sense of humour oHans Gerz claims that paradoxical intention is successful in 80-90% of cases
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Viktor Frankel: Logotherapy Viktor Frankel believed in the theory of logotherapy. Logotherapy is the therapy of meaning‚ the essence of the human being and the will to meaning. According to Viktor Frankel the will to meaning is the essence of life and who we are. The theory of logotherapy is different than Freudian psychoanalysis because Freud believed in studying the past. He believed that the future was determined and the analyst was the key. Frankel believed in the future and the freedom of
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Running head: LOGOTHERAPY Case Study of Logotherapy Dee‚ is a 34 year-old‚ single‚ white female‚ who lives in the Midwest. She works as a group home supervisor for head-injured adults. She has recently lost her father (please be specific I am assuming her father died)‚ ended a domestic relationship (did she end it‚ the partner or was it a mutual decision?)‚ and has taken a leave of absence in order to "get herself together" after experiencing conflicts at her job. Dee initially comes
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and imagery throughout this first-hand account is thorough‚ serious‚ and sarcastic at some points. However‚ it lacks the horrific imagery of concentration camps during the Holocaust to make the point of how his life there led to his success of Logotherapy more straightforward. The diction within Frankl’s book shows many degrading words said by the Capos‚ they oversaw the inmates barracks‚ towards him and the other inmates. The word choices do switch throughout the memoir; from degrading to sarcasm
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Logotherapy (founder-Dr Viktor E. Frankl-1905-1997)(4500 words) The term ‘Logotherapy’ can be described as taken from the Greek meaning of ‘logos’ and ‘therapy’. ‘Therapy’ is the treatment which is given to heal a disorder. Having looked into the meaning of the term ‘logos‚’ I was very surprised that the description was linked to Jesus! According to Wikipedia‚ John’s Gospel identifies the ‘Logos’ as the one through which all things are made‚ and further to this describes Jesus as being
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the camps‚ and to dive into why the survivors were the ones made it out‚ and it wasn’t due to luck‚ as Frankl stated. The ones who made it out were the ones who learned how to cope with the suffering and found meaning in it. Frankl’s term‚ coined logotherapy‚ is the foundation of this memoir. My interpretation of the word is that the primary motivation in a human is to pursue the things that he finds meaningful. I truly found Man’s Search for Meaning insightful‚ and wish that I had the opportunity to
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MEDICAL MINISTRY What matters is the stand a physically ill patient takes toward his predicament‚ the attitude he chooses toward his suffering. He may choose to be angry‚ or depressed‚ or discover a meaning in his suffering. In January 1998‚ my husband and I sat in silence and shock in the doctor’s office as the doctor pronounced that my husband had lymphoma and would need to see an oncologist for treatment. As we walked through the car park to our car‚ my husband was filled with such anger and
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