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Part Two: Basic Concepts of Logotherapy
1. Paul "Will to Meaning"
2. Sasha "Existential Frustration"
3. Kendra "Noögenic Neuroses"
4. Alyse "Noö-Dynamics"
5. Mazie "The Existential Vacuum"
6. Sara "The Meaning of Life"
7. Andrew "The Essence of Existence"
8. Jennifer "The Meaning of Love"
9. Connor "The Meaning of Suffering"
10. Katie Com "Meta-Clinical Problems"
11. Saryn "A Logodrama"
12. Rachel "The (Super or) Supra-Meaning"
13. Lauren "Life’s Transitoriness"
14. Jena and Lindsey "Logotherapy as a Technique"
15. Kelly "The Collective Neurosis"
16. Kyle "The Critique of Pan-Determinism"
17. Katie Col "The Psychiatric Credo"
18. Mike "Psychiatry Rehumanized"
Postscript 1984
19a. Joe "The Case for Tragic Optimism"
19b. Natalie "The Case for Tragic Optimism"
20a. Alex "Afterward"
20b. Nicky "Afterward"
20c. Miche "Afterward"
20d. Aly "Afterward"
3 comments:
1. Paul “The Will to Meaning”
In this section Frankl is telling us that humans are very unique in the animal kingdom in that simple survival is not enough for us. He supports himself with the statistic that 89% of people needed "something" to live for. Humans are evolved to the point that we have the capacity to question things and the most important thing for most of us is ourselves. This leads naturally to us questioning our existence and for what ever reason we tend to think there is some great explanation for everything.
2. Sasha "Existential Frustration"
3. Kendra A comment on "Noögenic Neuroses" and its significance in the book Man's Search For Meaning. This type of Neuroses is one that is a mental problem but not a disease, but more so a state of mind issue. Mainly dealing with the issue of aggravation in trying to find meaning in life. It is a detachment from ones self in feeling that their life is worthless and as a result, becomes mentally frustrated. The effect of that often is one digresses in to a dissatisfaction with a specific problem leading to outbursts. It is not Pathological of pathogenic but rather a state of mind complication. In many instances doctors try to treat the problem with drugs; in the book it says, “doctors bury their patient's existential despair with a heap of tranquilizing drugs, rather than to pilot the patient through their existential crisis of growth and development." Basically implying that a doctor should help a patient not through drugs but through guidance. That guidance being logotherapy. The use of psychotherapy is not useful in a situation of Noögenic Neuroses. Logotherapy is the use of treatment to guide someone through a situation and to help him or her grow. Logotherapy is just this: The prefix being logos means to use logic an important part of the brain process and by logotherapy they are restoring just that logos or logic to the brain to understand their own worth in life. Noögenic Neuroses is just the dissatisfaction with ones own existence and is treated by logotherapy; and idea created by Frankl to help treat people with similar problems and what was seen often coming out of the concentration camps after liberation. Possibly not to the extreme but to some extent. And that is the basis of logotherapy in the treatment of Noögenic Neuroses.
4. Alyse " Noö-Dynamics”
In this section of the book it mentions that there is a meaning in everyone’s life. It also describes about his experience when his "special" manuscript was confiscated in Auschwitz and how re-writing it helped him survive the rigors of the camp. He also goes on to further explore the theory of the existential dynamics in a polar field of tension where one pole is represented by a meaning that is to be fulfilled and the other pole by the man who has to fulfill it and sometimes men are "caught in the situation that I call existential vacuum."
5. Mazie "The Existential Vacuum"
6. Sara “The Meaning of Life”
The meaning of life is different from person to person, day to day, hour to hour and minute to minute. It is in terms of moments. No one should research for the meaning of life, for it is different for everyone. Everyone had their own mission and goals to fulfill though out life. Life is problems that are looking for answers. Therefore when asked, what is the meaning of life, the only answer is for your own.
7. Andrew "The Essence of Existence"
8. Jennifer Ballard "The Meaning of Love"
Frankl talks about love and the affect that it has on the people who have experienced it. He says that you can only understand a person if you love them, and it is by truly loving someone that you fully understand them. When someone feels love, a window of possibilities seems to open up for them. Frankl says that only when loved do you realize your full potential in life and then act on it. Loving someone has a greater influence on their life than you may understand, but it is in fact a huge influence and nothing but good can come from it. It seems that Frankl is saying that everyone needs love in order to become complete and to become all that they can be.
9. Connor "The Meaning of Suffering"
Victor E. Frankl's meaning of suffering is quite complex. He mostly wants people to find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed. He wants people to turn tragedy into triumph. He also wants people to learn and grow stronger from suffering. However, he states that suffering is not absolutely needed to find one's meaning in life, and whenever possible to avoid, do. The overall point is this: instead of asking "Will we survive?" the question one should ask him/her self is "Has all this suffering, this dying around us, a meaning? For, if not, then ultimately there is no meaning to survival"
10. Katie Com "Meta-Clinical Problems"
11. Saryn "A Logodrama"
12. Rachel “The Supra Meaning”
"What is demanded of man is not to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms." The super meaning talks about how man can gain strength, understanding, and knowledge by going thru hardships. Trials are given to test us and to help us to appreciate life.
13. Lauren “Life’s Transitoriness”
Life is full of those things that seem to take meaning out of life but it is these things that make life. At first they are only potentials, but when they are made real they become who we are. These potentials in life build the foundation of our inner person. It is what makes up cautious, envious, thankful, and regretful. Possibilities are only possibilities if you are never exposed to them and therefore once these possibilities happen they become realities. Life is not complete with out having work done, love loved, and sufferings being bravely suffered. None of these realities are what inspires envy.
14. Jena and Lindsey "Logotherapy as a Technique"
Logotherapy is used to cure phobias and obsessive compulsive behaviors. Its procedure consists of a reversal of the patient's attitude, since his fear is replaced by a paradoxical wish. Paradoxical intentions is a short-term therapeutic device. It is effective regardless of the etiological basis of the case concerned. An example of logotherapy is when it is used to treat a fear of perspiring. Instead of becoming anxious when an outbreak of perspiration is expected, the patient should resolve deliberately to show people how much they can sweat. The patient would from then on be free of the phobia.
15. Kelly "The Collective Neurosis"
16. Kyle "The Critique of Pan-Determinism"
17. Katie Col "The Psychiatric Credo"
18. Mike Guiffre “Psychiatry Rehumanized”
For too many years psychiatry has tried to interpret the human mind merely as a mechanism and because of this therapies of mental diseases are in terms of techniques. Doctors need to portray the attitude that their patent is more than a machine; they are people that are coming to them because they are in the search of help. The doctor always has a choice; they can act like a swine and look at them as machines in need of repair, or they can look upon them with the light of a human and then they will become a saint. Too bad most will be blind to this and chose to be a swine because man is the root of all evil.
19a. Joe "The Case for Tragic Optimism"
19b. Natalie “The Case for Tragic Optimism”
In the case for a tragic optimism it starts to talk about how we shouldn’t waste our lives away with silly mistakes. That we should learn from them and move on, that if we keep reminiscing on the things we made mistakes on, then we will not experience life. It’s saying that we need to make challenges for or selves but also to make the best out of every possible moment. In addition it is saying that everything that we have learned or have had with never be lost. Also in the case for a tragic optimism it talks about our society, how it cherishes the people who are successful, happy, and young. In conclusion it talks about our society and how everyone makes mistakes and how we need to learn from those and make our lives the best we can possibly make them.
20a. Alex "Afterword Part I"
Optimism and having a reason for living is not something that can be forced upon anyone. The more one tries to be optimistic or find a meaning in their life, the more they will struggle with these things. A meaning and better outlook on life can be found by relaxing and enjoying life.
20b. Nikky (149-154 Blue book)
Frankl talks about a couple of interesting this in this section. He talks about guilt and how everyone is responsible for overcoming quilt by raising above it and changing for the better. Things that happened in the past are not lost but just stored, remembered and treasured in ones mind. Victor also talks about how the old should not be pitied but the young should envy them. Even though they do not have much and can not offer much they have knowledge and they meanings fulfilled, and have realized that that can never be taken away from them. Victor continues and talks about how usefulness is determined by what is good for society at the time. This ignores the difference between people who are valuable and how much dignity someone has or are they connected? He feels there is no purpose of the universe. It is what it is. He leaves off this section with a thought that things will get even worse if people do not do their part in the world.
20 d. Aly "Afterward"
From page 143-149, Viktor is talking about the meaning of life. He explains his reasoning starting out with a film and how thousands upon thousands of slides are needed to create such a masterpiece. Where then, he means that in order for you to make something of yourself, you must go the thousands of days in your life, all different in everyway, and therefore make up the movie you call "life."
He then communicates how you must understand reality instead of the "dream world" to better understand life. In that way, you can fully grasp the concept of life itself.
Viktor then explains that according to the logotherapy theory, three main goals must be completed to fully arrive on the aspect of life. One is by creating a work or doing a deed. Secondly, encountering someone or experiencing something, in other words, meaning can be found not only in work but also in love. And lastly, even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself.
He talks about his neurological department of a general hospital. He explains how he found his meaning by working and completing his life to helping those around him.
The meaning of life is experienced through the fulfillment through the daily activities of life, but then again if there is no suffering, you can't truly experience what it means to live.
7. "The Essence of Existence"
This passage is basically saying that you need to live life as though you have lived it before and you need to deal with what you do. Your consequences in prospect. It also states that logo-therapists don’t take the task of judging, they leave it up too you to judge yourself. It tells you to feel the way you want, not the way society wants you to feel. In life there are leaders and followers. The sections says let you do your own problem-solving because it’s more useful then. You can look at life in two different ways: your way or society’s way. Don’t be so one-sided; you can learn from the bigger picture. Everybody lives for something and nobody lives for nothing. The less selfish you are the more human you are, and humanity is always learning and always changing. It then says that you can discover the meaning of life three different ways. One, creating a work or doing a deed. Two, experiencing something or encountering someone. And three, have an attitude towards unavoidable suffering. You experience goodness, culture, or, a person in its very uniqueness by loving it. --Andrew Harkin
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