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trickery and now can offer scientific approaches although possibly manipulative ones Psychotherapy without magic, has been replaced by psychotherapy without spirit.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...