Logotherapy

• • Empowering clients to live meaningfully and responsibly, regardless of their life circumstances.  Dr. Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) of Vienna developed Logotherapy and existential analysis in the 1930s.  In this therapy, the following principles are applied:   ••••Values may lie latent and need to be awakened or cultivated through existential analysis. "Those most apt to survive the camps were those oriented toward the future, toward a meaning to be fulfilled by only them..” Vikto Frankl  - Father of Logotherapy and Concentration Camp Survivor “Everything can be taken from a man, but…the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one’sattitude in any a given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way” ..Frankl • Many feel that life has no purpose, no challenge, no obligation and they try to fill their existentialvacuum with materials things, pleasure, sex, or power, busy work, but they are misguided(Frankl, 1984). • The feeling of meaninglessness underlies the mass neurotic triad of today - depression-addiction-aggression. • Goal of logotherapy is to enable patients to discover theirunique meanings and consider theirown areas of freedom. • The therapist expresses trust in the client’s dignity, freedom, responsibility, meaning-orientation, andpotential for positive change. • One of the prepositions of logotherapy is that the human spirit is our healthy core. The human spirit may be blocked by biological or psychological sickness, but it will remain intact. The human spirit does not get sick, even when the psychobiological organism is injured.