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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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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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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in person. Alfred Adler’s theory was more to Frankl’s liking‚ though‚ and that year he published an article - “Psychotherapy and Weltanschauung” - in Adler’s International Journal of Individual Psychology. The next year‚ Frankl used the term logotherapy in a public lecture for the first time‚ and began to refine his particular brand of Viennese psychology. In 1928 and 1929‚ Frankl organized cost-free counseling centers for teenagers in Vienna and six other cities‚ and began working at the Psychiatric
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sections‚ even though many who are healthier than he‚ are sent to the gas chambers. Viktor Frankl (26 March 1905 - 2 September 1997)‚ was an Austrian neuologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaustsurvior. Frank was the founder of logotherapy‚ which is a form existential analysis‚ the “Third Viennese School of
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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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on the psychology of survival. His assertion that "the will to meaning" is the basic motivation for human life has forever changed the way we understand our humanity in the face of suffering. Man ’s Search for Meaning AN INTRODUCTION TO LOGOTHERAPY Fourth Edition Viktor E. Frankl PART ONE TRANSLATED BY ILSE LASCH PREFACE BY GORDON W. ALLPORT BEACON PRESS TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER‚ Beacon Press 25 Beacon Street Boston‚ Massachusetts 02108-2892 www.beacon.org Beacon Press books
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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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Man’s Search for Meaning “A Man’s Search for Meaning”‚ written by Viktor E. Frankl‚ tells a story about his experiences of being a prisoner in a concentration camp during the Holocaust in 1933 and his psychotherapeutic method of pushing through this rough time. Frankl describes it as the “inside story of a concentration camp‚ told by one of its survivors” (Frankl‚ 1959). The story starts out with the prisoners being transported to the first concentration camp‚ Auschwitz. He describes the separation
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Hesson Period 1 Viktor Frankl’s book‚ “Mans Search for Meaning‚” has an abundance of despair‚ loss‚ and chances to become bitter‚ however‚ Frankl turns those potential feelings around and makes them into an experience‚ one he can learn from. It is similar to the saying “learn from your mistakes.” Frankl experiences the worst of the worst‚ and he learns something magnificent. This is not a story about the horrible things that happened to him in the Nazi camp‚ but one about his search for meaning
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