LOGOTHERAPY

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Proponent of Logotherapy

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VIKTOR E. FRANKL

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Therapy through meaning (“healing
through meaning”)

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Logotherapy

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“meaning organ” that acts
as a compass that guides choices

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Conscience

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Three fundamental ways to realize
meaning:

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■ Creatively (by doing a deed)
■ Experientially (by experiencing all the world - goodness, truth, beauty, etc.)
■ Attitudinally (how we view the world)

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Core Principles of Logotherapy

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Freedom of will
Will to meaning
Meaning of life

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We are free to choose how we respond to life and are responsible for our choices

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Freedom of Will

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We are motivated to find meaning and when it is prevented we experience existential frustration and feeling of meaningless

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Will to Meaning

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It is not on what we feel we deserve from life, but rather what our responsibility is to give to life

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Meaning of Life

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tragic triad of life

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unavoidable guilt, suffering, and guilt

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Goals of Logotherapy

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To facilitate clients’ quest for meaning and empower them to live meaningfully while considering their own area of freedom, regardless of their life circumstance

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Roles of the Therapist

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● Regard clients as fellow human beings (by including their physiological, psychological, and spiritual dimensions) and emphasize their uniqueness
● Remind that they have some freedom to respond to their situations or problems
● Make the client focus on their purpose instead of their problem
● Not tell the client on what to do but get them to question to themselves
● Respect the individuality of the client and utilize the values they choose to adopt
● Demonstrate to clients various
techniques and how they may be applied to their situations

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Main Techniques Used in
Logotherapy

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Dereflection
Paradoxical Intention
Socratic Dialogue
Modification of attitude

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Involves having clients to step back and reflect on their circumstances

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Dereflection

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Directs clients to intentionally exaggerate the behavior they wish to change in order to reduce anxiety or overcome the
issue by confronting it directly

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Paradoxical Intention

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Main technique in logotherapy (Guttman, 1996)
Conversational questioning method used to raise awareness of client’s unrealistic and counterproductive attitudes

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Socratic Dialogue

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Reframing attitudes from negative to positive

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Modification of Attitudes

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A mountain range is drawn and the
individual places people of importance to them on the various peaks

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Mountain Range Exercise

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Prompts an individual to develop a movie of his or her life

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Movie Exercise

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Commonly used in family therapy and clients are presented with a shoebox, magazine, tape, and scissors

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Family Shoebox Game

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One way of facilitating attitudinal change

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Stories and Metaphors

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Application of Logotherapy

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● Anxiety
● Depression
● Grief
● Phobias
● Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
● Acute Stress Disorder
● Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
● Suicidal Ideation
● Boredom, for some people who often experience it