Logotherapy, founded by Viktor Frankl, maintains that discovery of meaning in life can help people overcome difficulties of any intensity.

Logotherapy, founded by Viktor Frankl, maintains that discovery of meaning in life can help people overcome difficulties of any intensity.

Viktor Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist who spent the years 1942-45 in four different Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz. By the end of the war his pregnant wife, his parents and his brother had been murdered; among his immediate family,...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of of the logotherapy of Viktor Frankl and delves into the spiritual depths of an inherent search for meaning in life. Written by a highly experienced and competent logotherapist trained by Frankl himself, this book is excitingly new and unique in that it takes the reader, in the role of a client accompanied by the author in the role of the therapist, through the unfolding phase-by-phase process of logotherapy. Logotherapy is explored as a depth and as a height psychology. From a provoked will to meaning out of the depths of a spiritual unconscious, the author takes the search for meaning to the ultimate heights in the achievement of human greatness. This book brings Frankl's own profound life's orientation back to life and, in its reader-friendly style, has the freshness of Frankl's own way of writing. It is written in a refreshingly simple and straightforward style for easy accessibility to a wide readership. It includes cases studies andexercises for readers and is meant for use in logotherapy courses worldwide. Additionally, it will appeal to laypersons seeking a deeper meaning to their lives, psychology students and mental health professionals alike.

This book reviews the fundamental tenets of Viktor E. Frankl's Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: (1) Meaning in Life; (2) Freedom of Will; and (3) Will to Meaning. Meaning in life is a philosophical tenet. The freedom of will is an anthropological tenet which allows for a holistic conceptualization of the person. The will to meaning is a psychotherapeutic tenet. The three pillars are at the core of meaning centered interventions. It provides an overview of the evidence supporting the validity of these concepts in meaning centered psychotherapy. It details the results of emerging research surveying the experience of freedom of will. The "Principled Model of the Freedom of Will" is presented with implications for the interpretation and application of neuroscience findings in psychotherapy practice and everyday living. A valuable resource for practitioners and students of meaning centered psychotherapy who wish to familiarize themselves with the theoretical foundations underlying the practice of this modality. It may be of interest to readers for personal and professional development. | Author: Edward Marshall, Maria Marshall | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | Publication Date: Nov 16, 2017 | Number of Pages: 208 pages | Language: English | Binding: Paperback | ISBN-10: 1979811113 | ISBN-13: 9781979811118

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances. the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone. Only those who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camps degenerating influence - while those who made a victory of those experiences turned them into an inner triumph. Frankl came to believe that mans deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.

Book Synopsis Upon his death in 1997, Viktor E. Frankl was lauded as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. The Unheard Cry for Meaning marked his return to the humanism that made Man's Search for Meaning a bestseller around the world. In these selected essays, written between 1947 and 1977, Dr. Frankl illustrates the vital importance of the human dimension in psychotherapy. Using a wide range of subjects--including sex, morality, modern literature, competitive athletics, and philosophy--he raises a lone voice against the pseudo-humanism that has invaded popular psychology and psychoanalysis. By exploring mankind's remarkable qualities, he brilliantly celebrates each individual's unique potential, while preserving the invaluable traditions of both Freudian analysis and behaviorism. About the Author Viktor E. Frankl was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School. For twenty-five years he was head of the Vienna Neurological Policlinic. His Logotherapy/Existential Analysis came to be known as the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy." He held professorships at Harvard, Stanford, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, and was Distinguished Professor of Logotherapy at the U.S. International University in San Diego, California. Born in 1905, Frankl received the degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Vienna. During World War II he spent three years at Auschwitz, Dachau, and other concentration camps. Through four decades Dr. Frankl made innumerable lecture tours throughout the world. He received honorary degrees from twenty-nine universities in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. He held numerous awards, among them the Oskar Pfister Award of the American Psychiatric Association and an Honorary Membership of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Frankl's thirty-nine books appeared in forty-eight languages. His book Man's Search for Meaning has sold millions of copies and has been listed among "the ten most influential books in America." Viktor Frankl died 1997 in Vienna.

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