A 1991 reader survey for the library of congress that asked readers to name a book that made a difference in your life found mans search for meaning among the ten most influential books in america. Whole psychotherapy with positive reinforcement this feature is not available right now. Descargar en pdf, epub y disponible en ensayo, psicologia. The driving force behind logotherapy is the idea that human beings are most motivated by a search for meaning, indicating that the meaning of life is the biggest question on our minds and the biggest stressor on our psyches. Beacon press is now pleased to present a special gift edition of a work that was hailed in 1959 by carl rogers asone. The present paper aimed to research a central point. Logoterapia letteralmente vuol dire terapia del significato della vita logos senso, significato. Freedom is only part of the story, and half of the truth. Biografia viktor frankl 19051997, obra e influencias principales. It is considered the third viennese school of psychotherapy along with freuds psychoanalysis and adlers individual psychology. Logotherapy is a decadesold psychotherapeutic approach developed by viktor frankl. His logotherapy looks at our lives in a different way than most other psychotherapeutic theories.
Reducing life and human nature to nothingness, as many philosophers and psychiatrists of the time did, was not the most appropriate way of looking at life. Logotherapy was developed by neurologist and psychiatrist viktor frankl, on a concept based on the premise that the primary motivational force of an individual is to find a meaning in life. Viktor frankl once recommended that the statue of liberty on the east coast of the united states be complemented by a statue of responsibility, on the west coast. As i explore in my recent book viktor frankl s search for meaning berghahn books, there has been some. Neste artigo, procurouse investigar um ponto central na obra do psiquiatra austriaco, criador da logoterapia, viktor frankl. A psicoterapia na pratica, logoterapia viktor frankl. Viktor frankl had a conviction that what makes us unique is the human spirit. Frankl claimed that the meaning of his life was to help others find the meaning of theirs. Apresenta tambem, numa segunda parte, os conceitos basicos da logoterapia. At the time of frankl s death in 1997, mans search for meaning had sold more than 10 million copies in twentyfour languages.