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Meaningful Living: Lukas

 Contents A. Meaningful Living 1 Chapter 1. Our Search for Meaning 1 Chapter 2 Causes and consequences of existential frustration 3 Chapter 3 Overview of Premises and Methods 4 Chapter 4 Applications of attitude modulation 5 Chapter 5 Applications of the paradoxical intent 7 Chapter 6 Applications of dereflection 8 Chapter 7 Applications of the suggestive technique 10 Chapter 8 The ideal Logotherapist 10 Part B A synopsis of logotherapy 11 Chapter 1 Basic Assumptions of logotherapy 11 Chapter 2 Techniques and indications 12   A. Meaningful Living Chapter 1. Our Search for Meaning We long for freedom, but then we can get lost in unstructured freedom, in a field with no signs.   Freedom difficulties Free time: we have more free time and then don’t know what to do with it. We have more comforts in our lives, but this encourages us to a passive life. Women have freedom to work but now have 3 times the pressure to rear\have a profession...
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Meaning in Suffering: Lukas

 Contents Chapter 1 Comfort where no cure is possible 1 Chapter 2 The best possible help 3 Diagnosis Phase 3 The therapeutic phase 4 The follow up phase 6 Chapter 3  Suffering and the question of meaning 6 Chapter Four Guilt and the Question of Meaning 8 Chapter 5 Resistance in suffering 9 Chapter 6 The Will to Joy as a health resource 9 Chapter 7 Psychotherapy and responsibility 10 Chapter 8 Reflections 10 Chapter 1 Comfort where no cure is possible Suffering, existing between the abyss of mysticism and religion faith on one hand and scientific, rational behavioural manipulation on the other Psychotherapy is religion and vice versa   Psychology emerged out of magic, exorcism and trickery and now can offer scientific approaches although possibly manipulative ones   Psychotherapy without magic, has been replaced by psychotherapy without spirit. Psychotherapy must give hope\help and where that’s not possible it must give comfort   Early psych...
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Adventures with Frankl and Logotherapy Wong

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 Contents Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 2 Who is Frankl? What is EA and logotherapy 2 Chapter 3 The basic tenets of logotherapy 3 Chapter 4 What are the three values for the meaning in life 5 Chapter 5 Domains of meaning in life 7 Chapter 6 The hidden power of self transcendence 8 Chapter 7 Logotherapy techniques 9 Chapter 8  Meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing 10 Chapter 9 From Logotherapy to Integrative Meaning Therapy:  A Blueprint for Better Mental Health 12 Chapter 1 Introduction Finding meaning of life from books or the crucible of despair Achievers’ paradox, the more you aim for achievement for personal glory   the less you will get it.   (as it is hollow to seek achievement for glory purposes, as opposed to seeking to do things you really care about and achievement being a byproduct of it) This is such a familiar Frankl move. There are things which are by-products but can’t be aimed for in themselves, happ...
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