The Pursuit of Meaning: Viktor Frankl, Logotherapy, and Life

The Pursuit of Meaning: Viktor Frankl, Logotherapy, and Life
ISBN-10
0982427891
ISBN-13
9780982427897
Series
The Pursuit of Meaning
Category
Logotherapy
Language
English
Published
2013
Publisher
Purpose Research
Author
Joseph B. Fabry

Description

A reprint of the 1987 classic. Contains the essence of the logotherapeutic writings of Viktor Frankl, who noted that many readers report that they understand some parts of logotherapy for the first time after reading this book. Fabry wrote in the introduction: Many older therapies place responsibility for our difficulties on our early upbringing. Logotherapy is education to responsibility. Outside influences are important but not all-determining. Within limitations we have a say about who we are and who we want to become. Logotherapy maintains and restores mental health by providing a sound view of the human being and the world as we know it. It draws on the huge reservoir of health stored in our specifically human dimension-our creativity, our capacity to love, our reaching out to others, our desire to be useful, our ability to orient to goals, and our will to meaning. Logophilosophy emphasizes what is right with us, what we like about ourselves, our accomplishments, and our peak experiences. It also considers the qualities we dislike so we may change them, our failures so we can learn from them, our abysses so we may lift ourselves up, knowing that peaks exist and can be reached.

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