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- noun psychotherapy A therapy that involves finding the
meaning of one's life.
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Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos ( "meaning") - holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.
AvaxHome RSS: 2009
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Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos ( "meaning") - holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.
AvaxHome RSS: 2009
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He represented a new force in psychotherapy called logotherapy—"logo" standing for the search for meaning, the search to find a purpose, a reason, a goal, a task which carries personal meaning.
Living the 7 Habits STEPHEN R. COVEY 2001
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He founded logotherapy which is derived from a Greek word logos
SpikedHumor - Today's Videos and Pictures jawbreaker 2010
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Meaning, not faith or money, was at the center of Frankl's signature mental-health theory, "logotherapy," forged during the Holocaust.
The Seattle Times 2010
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His work is like studying 'logotherapy' through paintings, as he juxtaposes living in a happy, rural India with the urbane setting of Hyderabad, where everyday explodes into your face.
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Being something of an agnostic, myself, I'm very much a supporter of Frankl's logotherapy, as it provides meaning without the need to refer to a premiuse that may or may not exist.
Archive 2007-04-01 The_Lex 2007
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Being something of an agnostic, myself, I'm very much a supporter of Frankl's logotherapy, as it provides meaning without the need to refer to a premiuse that may or may not exist.
Vonnegut and Frankl The_Lex 2007
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After scanning through the Wikipedia entries of Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse Five sidenote: entertained by the fact that this book has elements of time unstuckness while I've been posting about The Time Traveler's Wife, though, I didn't pick up on anything contrary to Frankl's logotherapy.
Vonnegut and Frankl The_Lex 2007
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After scanning through the Wikipedia entries of Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse Five sidenote: entertained by the fact that this book has elements of time unstuckness while I've been posting about The Time Traveler's Wife, though, I didn't pick up on anything contrary to Frankl's logotherapy.
Archive 2007-04-01 The_Lex 2007
ruzuzu commented on the word logotherapy
"It is a type of existentialist analysis that focuses on a will to meaning as opposed to Adler's Nietzschean doctrine of will to power or Freud's will to pleasure." --Wikipedia
April 19, 2011