logotherapy
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Logotherapy is a form of existential therapy developed by neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl. It is founded on the premise that the primary motivational force of individuals is to find meaning in life. Frankl describes it as "the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy" along with Freud's psychoanalysis and Alfred Adler's individual psychology.
Research
196 papers- In search of logotherapy.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2022
- Logotherapy.The Israel annals of psychiatry and related disciplines · 1967
- Logotherapy and existential analysis--a review.American journal of psychotherapy · 1966
- A systematic review on the effects of logotherapy and meaning-centered therapy on psychological and existential symptoms in women with breast and gynecological cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
- Logotherapy.The Nursing journal of India · 2013
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Article
27 sectionsContents
- Basic principles
- Discovering meaning
- Philosophical basis of logotherapy
- Logotherapeutic views and treatment
- Overcoming anxiety
- Treatment of neurosis
- Depression
- Obsessive–compulsive disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Terminally ill patients
- Forms of treatment
- Critiques
- Authoritarianism
- Religiousness
- Recent developments
- Locations
- Africa
- Asia
- Australia
- Europe
- North America
- South America
- Online
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Logotherapy is a form of existential therapy developed by neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl. It is founded on the premise that the primary motivational force of individuals is to find meaning in life. Frankl describes it as "the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy" along with Freud's psychoanalysis and Alfred Adler's individual psychology.
Logotherapy is based on an existential analysis focusing on Kierkegaard's will to meaning as opposed to Adler's Nietzschean doctrine of will to power or Freud's will to pleasure. Rather than power or pleasure, logotherapy is founded upon the belief that striving to find meaning in life is the primary, most powerful motivating and driving force in humans. A short introduction to this system is given in Frankl's most famous book, ''Man's Search for Meaning (1946), in which he outlines how his theories helped him to survive his Holocaust experience and how that experience further developed and reinforced his theories. Presently, there are a number of logotherapy institutes around the world.