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The neglected dimension of health
Published in Mabel Aghadiuno, Christopher Dowrick, Soul Matters – The Spiritual Dimension within Healthcare, 2017
The assumptions of logotherapy, like all psychotherapies, can neither be proved nor disproved with certainty, but to see if they make sense in our lives we have to assume that they are true. According to Frankl, freedom is the space to shape one’s own life within the limits of given possibilities. This freedom stems from the spiritual dimension of the person. When a person cannot fulfil his or her ‘will to meaning’, there is an empty meaninglessness. The frustration that results leads to aggression, addiction, depression, suicide and it may result in or aggravate psychosomatic complaints and neurotic disorders. Logotherapy does not offer some general meaning in life, but it does assist clients in achieving ‘the openness and flexibility that will enable them to shape their day-to-day lives in a meaningful manner’.31
Spirituality and Mental Health
Published in John Wattis, Stephen Curran, Melanie Rogers, Spiritually Competent Practice in Health Care, 2017
As discussed in Chapter 1, Frankl asserted that meaning can be found through relationships, through a ‘life’s work’ and even, in circumstances of great suffering, through how we respond to that suffering. Logotherapy is a form of existential therapy which involves examining our basic assumptions about life, developing insight into our beliefs, feelings and behaviour. This enables us to change and to find meaning in our lives, whatever their circumstances.
The Chaplain/Pastoral Counselor as a Behavioral Medicine Consultant in Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Team Approach
Published in Larry VandeCreek, Laurel Arthur Burton, The Chaplain-Physician Relationship, 2014
Richard D. Underwood, Brenda B. Underwood, Donald Mosley
Frankl’s (1969) logotherapy approach offers further expansion to the reeducation of cardiopulmonary patients. Logotherapy is an existential philosophical system that points to the future decisions a person needs to make in order to find meaning in life. It essentially rejects the deterministic view of persons and refers rather to the responsible freedom of persons. In logotherapy, the person is confronted with and reoriented toward the meaning of life. The system sees a person’s primary motivation as seeking meaning and purpose in life. A failure to discover a unique meaning and purpose in life causes a person to experience an existential vacuum or depression. This is a state of emptiness, which if not relieved will eventually result in existential frustration. The counseling aspect of this system consists of guiding a person in the search for meaningful values and purposive goals in life.
Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions on the burden and quality of life of informal caregivers of hemodialysis patients: a systematic review
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2022
Ana Bártolo, Helena Sousa, Oscar Ribeiro, Daniela Figueiredo
Results also emerged through psychological intervention [29,41] with benefits on care burden and secondary outcomes such as self-efficacy and negative and positive outcomes expectancies. These effects were larger after the intervention, declining over time [29,41]. However, like the findings obtained for psychoeducational approaches, the effects of psychological intervention on reducing the burden remained significant up to two months after the intervention. More specifically, Hoseinigolafshani et al. [41] examined the effectiveness of an innovative logotherapy intervention that seems promising for decreasing burden. In recent years, logotherapy has been an important contribution to care provision in chronic disease [44]. Group logotherapy in particular has helped cancer patients and their families to find meaning in their lives, promoting their adaptation to the disease and its requirements [45]. Thus, considering the results found, further studies are needed to explore the benefits of integrating logotherapy with other effective approaches and/or techniques more commonly used in this context [46].
Age Progression in the Treatment of Suicidal Patients
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 2022
Alfred Adler (1982) believed that an individual’s present behavior is driven by an image of the future. Adler’s theoretical model is eloquently reviewed by Ansbacher and Ansbacher (1990). Mowrer (1950) believed that the essence of integrated healthy mature behavior is the capacity to bring the future into the psychological present. Viktor Frankl (1954, 1956, 1959) developed his model of logotherapy and the importance of meaning in a person’s life, which is based in part on concepts that are anchored in believing in one’s better and meaningful future. The concept of living life with a meaning serves as a protective factor against suicidal tendencies, this idea was recently supported by a study of Lew et al. (2020). Sools and Mooren (2012) provide an excellent review about the role of a future focus on psychology and its value in the enhancement of well-being and resilience. They note the work of Abraham Maslow (1968) and his concept of self-actualization that refers to the process of developing a person’s abilities to realize one’s potential and the not yet actualized capabilities. Later, Sools and Mooren point out that the field of cognitive psychology relying on “the study of choosing, planning, fore-thought, goal-directed behavior, self-regulation, and control theories would not exist when no future was implied” (2012, p. 207).
Acceptance and forgiveness therapy for veterans with moral injury: spiritual and psychological collaboration in group treatment
Published in Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, 2022
Patricia U. Pernicano, Jennifer Wortmann, Kerry Haynes
Spiritually integrated care is an emerging and important treatment method, given that more than 90% of veterans believe in a higher power and 89% identify as Christian (Fontana & Rosenheck, 2004; Usset et al., 2020). Exposure to potentially morally injurious events and/or trauma-related spiritual distress has been associated with increased severity and duration of PTSD symptoms and increased suicide risk (Harris et al., 2011; Usset, Butler, & Harris, 2021). Trauma-focused spiritual interventions, such as Building Spiritual Strength (BSS), benefit veterans with PTSD and MI by reducing spiritual distress (Harris et al., 2011; Usset et al., 2021). Spiritually focused approaches address morally laden emotions and appraisal of guilt and self-blame (Barnes, Hurley, & Taber, 2019; Carey & Hodgson, 2018; Resick, 2020), and spiritually oriented providers with a holistic approach to psychospiritual healing integrate concepts of forgiveness and meaning-making (Brémault-Phillips et al., 2019; Bryan et al., 2016; Büssing, Recchia, & Toussaint, 2018; Currier, Holland, & Malott, 2014; Griffin, Cornish, Maguen, & Worthington, 2021; Litz et al., 2009; Maguen et al., 2017; Wortmann et al., 2017). Viktor Frankl (1959), a concentration camp survivor who developed logotherapy, proposed that we discover meaning through significant work, love for others, and courage, even during horrendous life circumstances. Frankl’s writing differentiates spirituality from religiosity and suggests search for meaning is rooted in our spiritual yearnings as human beings.