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Logotherapy is a form of existential therapy developed by neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl.[1] It is founded on the premise that the primary motivational force of individuals is to find meaning in life.[2] Frankl describes it as "the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy"[3][4] along with Freud's psychoanalysis and Alfred Adler's individual psychology.[5]
Logotherapy is based on an existential analysis[6] 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.[2] 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.
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- ^ a b Maria Marshall; Edward Marshall (2012). Logotherapy Revisited: Review of the Tenets of Viktor E. Frankl's Logotherapy. Ottawa: Ottawa Institute of Logotherapy. ISBN 978-1-4781-9377-7. OCLC 1100192135. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- ^ Frankl, Viktor (1 June 2006). Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-1427-1. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
- ^ Gordon Allport, from the Preface to Man's Search for Meaning, p. xiv
- ^ "Logotherapy: The benefits of finding meaning in life". Medical News Today. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
- ^ "About". Viktor Frankl Institute Vienna. Retrieved 22 May 2012.