Dr. Viktor Frankl was a professor of both psychiatry and philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria,
He was the founder of logotherapy. His logotherapy looks at our lives in a different way than most other psychotherapeutic theories. It looks to the healthy spiritual core of people for resources of healing, instead of analyzing pathology ad infinitum. Each of us has healing potential.
The definition of the term logotherapy is finding meaning through therapy.
The Greek term logos will be familiar to students of theology. It is usually translated as the "Word" or "Will" of God in religious circles. In a broader sense, it can be viewed as "that which gives reason for being." Frankl prefers the simple translation of logos as "meaning."
Basic assumptions of logotherapy:
1. Life has meaning under all circumstances.
2. People have a will to meaning.
3. People have freedom under all circumstances to activate the will to meaning and to find meaning.
Therapy, counselling and healing are full of hope and engagement.
"Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
Viktor E. Frankl
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