The goal of the course is to give mental health practitioners a basic understanding of logotherapy that includes its history, its underlying principles, its clinical applications and its use today.

 

The Theory of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis

• Nature of the Human Person
• Frankl’s Laws of Dimensional Ontology
• The Spiritual Unconscious
• Frankl’s Categorical Values
• Frankl’s Phenomenological Assumptions and the Will to Meaning
• The Existential Vacuum

 

The Placement of Logotherapy within Psychology and Psychiatry

• Logotherapy and Viennese Psychiatry
• Logotherapy and Existential Analysis
• Frankl’s Answer to Jung
• Logotherapy and American Psychology

 

The Philosophical Background of Logotherapy

• Existentialism
• Phenomenology

 

Clinical Applications of Logotherapy

• Paradoxical Intention
• Dereflection
• Socratic Dialogue
• Values Clarification and Meaningful Goal Setting
• Structured Experiences
• The Golden Imprint