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VIKTOR FRANKL AND LOGOTHERAPY

VIKTOR FRANKL AND LOGOTHERAPY. Biography Man´s Search for Meaning Basic Tenets of Logotherapy Logotherapy and Other Psychological Schools . Viktor E.  Frankl , M.D., Ph.D. (1905- 1997) Neurologist and psychiatrist Founder of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis.

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VIKTOR FRANKL AND LOGOTHERAPY

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  1. VIKTOR FRANKL AND LOGOTHERAPY • Biography • Man´s Search for Meaning • Basic Tenets of Logotherapy • Logotherapyand Other Psychological Schools

  2. Viktor E. Frankl, M.D., Ph.D. (1905- 1997) Neurologist and psychiatrist Founder of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis

  3. Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School. Director of the Neurological Department of Rothschild Hospital. (1940-42) Director of the Vienna Neurological Policlinic.(1946-70)

  4. Distinguished Professor of Logotherapy, U.S. International University, San Diego, California • University of Pittsburgh • University of Dallas, Texas • Harvard University, Cambridge Recipient of 29 honorary doctorates from universities in all parts of the world.

  5. Man's Search for Meaning (a.k.a.: FromDeath-Camp toExistentialism) 1946 According to a survey conducted by the Library of Congress (1991) it belongs to "the ten most influential books in America."

  6. PART ONE: Analysisof Frankl´sexperiences in theconcentrationcamps * Decentand Indecent Human Beings * Falsifiability * Equation of Despair = S – M * Counselor in a concentration camp

  7. PART TWO: IntroductiontoFrankl´s ideas of meaningand theory of Logotherapy * TragicTriad of Human Existence * FiniteFreedom * Hyper- intention

  8. What´sthemeaning of life? The meaning of life differs from person to person, from day to day and from hour to hour.

  9. Logotherapy, keeping in mind the essential transitoriness , of human existence, is not pessimistic but rather activistic. At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.

  10. Existential VacuumDepression Aggression • Addiction • Mass neurosis of the present time. • Private and personal form • of nihilism (contention that being has no meaning) Such a view of man makes a neurotic believe that he is the pawn and victim of outer influences or inner circumstances.

  11. According to Logotherapy, we can discover our meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed (2) by experiencing something (goodness, truth, beauty, nature and culture) or encountering someone (by experiencing another human being in his very uniqueness; by loving him) (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.

  12. LOGOTHERAPY AND OTHER SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT Behaviourism Existentialism (Sartre) Psychoanalysis -Self-centeredness -Pleasure-seeking -Past-oriented - Instinctive drives -Discharge of tension

  13. Logotherapy * Focusontheworldoutside of oneself * Willtomeaning * Present/ Future-oriented *Ideals and values * Tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish * Self-determinism rather than Pan-determinism * Self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.

  14. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness.

  15. Works Cited • Frankl, Viktor. Man´s Search for Meaning. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. Print. • “Life and Work.” Viktor Frankl Institute. Web. 26 October 2010. • “Life and Works of Viktor Frankl.” Logotherapy Institute. Web. 25 October 2010. • “Logotherapy.” Viktor Frankl Institute. Web. 26 October 2010. • “Tenets.” Logotherapy Institute. Web. 25 October 2010. • Works Consulted • Redsan, Anna. Viktor Frankl. A Life Worth Living. New York: Clarion Books, 2006. Print.

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