logotherapy

LTEA, Logotherapy & Existential Analysis, also know as the Third Viennoise School of psychotherapy is an internationally acknowledged and empirically based Meaning-Centered Approach developed by worldwide known psychiatrist and neurologist Dr. Viktor Frankl. Freud's psychoanalysis emphasize on the "Will To Pleasure", Adler's individual psychology  on the "Will to Power",  and Frankl's logotherapy on "The Will To Meaning"

Logotherapy considers the Search for Meaning  as the main motivational force in human beings. It catalyses the process of Meaning discovery and assists the person in his own search and identification of unique meaning. In Logotherapy, we talk about "The Pursuit Of Meaning". Happiness and pleasures are only by product of Meaning fulfilment.

Logotherapy is based on three concepts:

• Freedom of Will
• Will To Meaning
• Meaning Of Life

Three main tenets, represents the basic principles of Logotherapy:

• Life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable ones.
• Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
• We have freedom to find meaning in what we do, in what we experience, and in the stance we take when we are faced with a situation of unchangeable suffering. The previous constitutes the 3 categories of values. Meaning cannot be discovered unless by unique values identifictaion and actualisation

In Logotherapy, the human being is respected and treated in its wholeness: Body, Psyche And Spirit. No reductionism has a place and the spirit "the noos" is considered the home of Meaning. The human spirit is our healthy core and its defiant power gives man the capacity to tap into the spiritual dimension in order to transcend the unavoidable challenges or sufferings, the effects of a specific situation and the influences of the body and pscyhe.

Logotherapy philosophy is based on various contents out of which we can briefly mention main ones: Freedom, Responsibility, Three dimensionality of the Human Being, Attitude, Uniqueness, Values, Choice, Intuitive conscience and Self-transcendence.

“The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing” 

"“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”