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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. T...
Teria Shantall The quest for destiny is a theme of logotherapy, developed by the founder of this therapy, Dr Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor. Logotherapy is a way of life, it acts as catalyst by provoking and/or evoking value and meaning consciousness on the part of the client. Logotherapy's uniqueness and relevance is that it highlights not only our own, but the world's quest for meaning. Although logotherapy is primarily presented in its original context of the Holocaust and Jewish thought, it can be applied in any context.
Examines whether religion is natural to human experience, and whether this helps to ground a universal right to religious freedom.
What do we do when we are suddenly subjected to traffic and senseless suffering -- suffering we did not bring upon ourselves, that we feel we do not deserve? This book is about the suffering of Jewish men, women and children who were singled out as targets of senseless hatred and ruthless persecution by the Nazis during the Second World War. The struggle of Holocaust survivors to come to terms with what happened to them in the Nazi concentration and death camps gives us a poignant picture of the human struggle to understand what life is all about in the face of its tragedies and hardships, and of the evil of mans inhumanity to man.
This landmark volume introduces the new series of proceedings from the Viktor Frankl Institute, dedicated to preserving the past, disseminating the present, and anticipating the future of Franklian existential psychology and psychotherapy, i.e. logotherapy and existentialanalysis . Wide-ranging contents keep readers abreast of current ideas, findings, and developments in the field while also presenting rarely-seen selections from Frankl’s work. Established contributors report on new applications of existential therapies in specific (OCD, cancer, end-of-life issues) and universal (the search for meaning) contexts as well as intriguing possibilities for opening up dialogue with other schools...
The present book offers a collection of writings by professionals and clinicians familiar with the work of Viktor E. Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist, and the founder of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (LTEA), a meaning-centered approach to psychotherapy. This mosaic illustrates the nature, aspects, dimension, and relevance of basic trust as the source of meaningful living. "Interconnectedness," by Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Lukas, invites the reader to consider lived experience in the context of a larger whole of humanity's search for meaning. "Never Again!" a speech by Rabbi Idan Scher, affirms that the universal call to value the dignity of every person and each life. "From Psychotherapy to...