Logotherapy

Half the book is his account of survival, his narrative of other prisoners who were kind, who were generous and brave.

The other half is called Logotherapy in a Nutshell.

That is literally what it's called, Logotherapy in a Nutshell.

Viktor Frankl, before and after the camps, had a philosophy of life that was called logotherapy.

Logo means meaning.

As a therapist, as I show in the book, and I have a lot of dialogues, you see me work with clients in the book.

I outline what is Logotherapy, who is Viktor Frankl, what does Hasidic Thought say about it.

Then I show you examples of how I've done this with people.

You will watch my examples.

Yes.

Logotherapy was originally developed by Viktor Frankl, the psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor who wrote Man's Search for Meaning.

Such a powerful book.

He observed firsthand in the concentration camps that those who could hold on to a scrap of meaning, whether it was the hope of seeing a loved one again or an unfinished manuscript they wanted to write, were far more likely to psychologically survive the unimaginable horrors.

And logotherapy is the clinical application of that idea.

Exactly.

Logotherapy is built on the premise that human beings possess the capacity to find profound meaning in absolutely any situation, even in the midst of unavoidable, unchangeable suffering.

Meaning isn't something you invent.

It is something you discover through your actions, your experiences, and the attitude you choose to take towards your suffering.

And that's what really, and it was my colleague saying to me to read Man's Search for Meaning, which is by Viktor Frankl, which is a life-changing book for me.

And he developed Logotherapy, which is one of the first forms of existential therapy, meaning-making.

You know, existential therapy is finding meaning in your journey, your purpose, your meaning.

Absolutely.

Things to get you through this, uh, sequence of bad baseball for me, waking up tomorrow, jumping into Lake Michigan for fun purposes.

Maybe, uh, whipping out Victor Frankel's Logotherapy, putting on Big Bang Theory, as it were.

That's a comfort show.

Kyle Bradish, mixed results.