Existentialism: A Theoretical Orientation Jared Smith Nevada State College In the mental health profession‚ there are many theoretical approaches available to therapists to help them in understanding their clients. These theoretical approaches‚ “provide a frame work for conceptualizing client problems and determining a course of action in counseling” (Erford‚ 2010). Existentialism is one of many theoretical orientations of the mental health profession within the human services industry available
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she was working with young man suffering spinal cord injury during her doctorate level coursework at the University of Alabama in the 1970’s. She contacted Dr. Frankl to find out more about his theory and the therapy associated with it (called Logotherapy)‚ in the hope that it would help her patients find meaning in life despite their tragedies. Since then‚ many other nurses have used this theory to help their patients. Today‚ Patricia Lee Starck‚ Ph.D.‚ R.N.‚ F.A.A.N is currently dean of The
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concentration camps. Later‚ while in Auschwitz‚ to give himself a sense of purpose‚ he observed his fellow prisoners and their individual experiences. Once returning home after being freed‚ he developed an entirely new method of therapy called Logotherapy. He wrote A Man’s Search For Meaning in order to explain how the theory came about as well as to add a different perspective to the many books being written about the reality of the Nazi concentration camps. It is a difficult task to summarize
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In Man’s Search for Meaning‚ Viktor Frankl‚ a Jewish psychiatrist‚ reflects on his experiences in a German concentration camp during the Holocaust. In the book‚ Frankl shows how one might find hope in light of adversity and meaning despite despair. In Man’s Search for Meaning‚ one can find a response to the problem of evil in the world‚ and embrace the Jesuitical ideal of vocation Frankl organizes a prisoner’s experience in a concentration camp into three separate phases of mental reactions‚ "The
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the Amazon forest! At first‚ I needed to find out who was Victor Frankl; I needed to look in depth who was this person. After numerous searches‚ I found out he was born in 1905 and died in 1997; he was a neurologist‚ psychiatrist‚ founder of logotherapy‚ and existential analysis. And most importantly‚ he was an Auschwitz survivor. Dr Frankl authored thirty two books that were published in no less than 29 languages. The book I was supposed to review‚
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This essay sets out to explore Viktor E Frankl and his key concepts of freedom‚ responsibility and meaning in his existential theory and the relevance of these concepts within the counselling setting. Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) was born into a Jewish family‚ his experience in the concentration camps during the 2nd world war clearly helped shaped his beliefs and his subsequent approach to methods of counselling and therapy. However‚ prior to the war Frankl was himself an eminent physician and neurologist
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Cambridge University Press‚ 1998)‚ p.15 4 7. J. P Sartre‚ Being and Nothingness‚ (London: Routledge Classics‚ 2003)‚ pp 73-105 BIBLIOGRAPHY ACHEBE C.‚ The Trouble with Nigeria‚ Enugu: Fourth Dimension Publishing Co.‚ Ltd‚ 1983 ASAGBA R.‚ Logotherapy and Cultural Development‚ Ibadan: Spectrum Books Ltd‚ 2006. BAGGINI J.‚ What’s It All About? Philosophy and The Meaning of Life‚ London: Granta Books‚ 2004 BAILEY V. (ed.)‚ Perspectives on values‚ America: La Sierra University Press
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My Personal Search for a Meaningful Existence I am the representative embodiment of my nihilistic culture. I am narcissistic‚ insatiable‚ petty‚ apathetic and I am above all an emotional invalid. Yet‚ up until very recently‚ I was not consciously aware that I was guilty of having any of these wholly pejorative attributes‚ because I had unconsciously suppressed my inherent will to attain a meaningful existence‚ in favor of the comfort and security that complacency and futility provide. There
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In Viktor Frankl’s novel‚ A Man’s Search for Meaning‚ he starts by describing the stages he stages he noticed the prisoners go through while in the camps. Eventually he gets to the complete and utter apathy that one experiences when they are faced with traumatic things everyday. In DeSpelder and Strickland’s‚ The Last Dance‚ they describe different attitudes towards death and how many cultures view death as “not as a means to an end but as a change of status” and in Frankl’s story I feel as though
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