Contains the essence of the logotherapeutic writings of Viktor Frankl, who noted that many readers report that they understand some parts of Logotherapy for the first time after reading this book.
It also considers the qualities we dislike so we may change them, our failures so we can learn from them, our abysses so we may lift ourselves up, knowing that peaks exist and can be reached..
Logophilosophy emphasizes what is right with us, what we like about ourselves, our accomplishments, and our peak experiences.
It draws on the huge reservoir of health stored in our specifically human dimension-our creativity, our capacity to love, our reaching out to others, our desire to be useful, our ability to orient to goals, and our will to meaning.
Logotherapy maintains and restores mental health by providing a sound view of the human being and the world as we know it. 85).
It cannot be pursued (Unconscious God, p.
It must ensue noted Frankl.
Mental health does not come to those who demand happiness but to those who find meanings; to them happiness comes as a side product.
Life does not owe us pleasure; it does offer us meaning.
The struggle for meaning is not easy. 10).
The healthiest tension is between what we are and what we have the vision of growing toward, or, to use Frankl\'s favorite phrase, the tension between being and meaning (Psychotherapy and Existentialism, p.
But the healthy tension of the spirit strengthens our spiritual muscles.
To remain healthy, the unhealthy tensions of body and psyche are to be avoided.
Tension is part of living as a human being in a human society.
Consequently, logotherapy-unlike therapies that aim at equilibrium by adjusting patients to society-does not see a tensionless Life as a therapeutic goal.
We need never let ourselves be reduced to helpless victims.
Within limitations we have a say about who we are and who we want to become.
Outside influences are important but not all-determining.
Logotherapy is education to responsibility.
Fabry wrote in the introduction: Many older therapies place responsibility for our difficulties on our early upbringing.
Contains the essence of the logotherapeutic writings of Viktor Frankl, who noted that many readers report that they understand some parts of Logotherapy for the first time after reading this book
