Logotherapy
"Logos" is Greek for meaning, and logotherapy is used to help patients find personal meaning in life.
Viktor Frankl believed humans are motivated by a desire to find meaning in life. He argued that even in the most miserable circumstances, life can have meaning. Viktor Frankl wrote one thing that can't be taken from a person is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Basic assumptions of logotherapy
- Body, mind, and spirit. Viktor Frankl argued that we have a body and mind, but that the spirit is what we are.
- Life has meaning in all circumstances, even in the most miserable situations.
- Meaning is our primary motivation...
Why Logotherapy?
Psychiatrist and psychotherapist Viktor Frankl developed logotherapy after surviving Nazi concentration camps in the 1940s. His experience and theories are detailed in his book, "Man’s Search for Meaning."
Frankl believed that humans are motivated by something called a "will to meaning," Th...
Criticism of logotherapy
In 1961, psychologist Rollo May, founder of the existential movement in the United States, argued that logotherapy was equivalent to authoritarianism, where the therapist dictates solutions to the patient.
It may be that logotherapy argues that there are always clear solut...
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