Die Bedeutung der Logotherapie bzw. sinnzentrierten Psychotherapie nach Prof. V. E. Frankl für die Medizin

Abstract: That finding of the sense of life, psychic and physical health are related, has been proven by the psychiatrist and neurologist Prof. Viktor E. Frankl from Vienna. The logotherapy established by him is a psychotherapy emphasizing the sense of life. Its healing concept starts out from the assumption, that man does not only strive for the satisfaction of his somatic and psychic needs, but also, as the mental being he is, looks for the fulfilment of the sense, the sense of his life. lf he does not discovers the sense of life, he easily falls into an "existential vacuum"; this "existential" endangers the psychic and physical health and is the fertile soil for several disturbances like neuroses, depressions, addiction and criminality. But the reverse also is true: A life full of sense can contribute to the stabilization and recovering of health. The logotherapy offers the human being who is searching for the sense of life a methodical help and this is its significance for medicine.

Keyword(s): Logotherapie

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