Sublime

His observations led Frankl to develop the theory of logotherapy in his book, Man’s Search for Meaning. Unlike previous theories of motivation, like Freud’s Will to Pleasure or Nietzsche’s Will to Power, Frankl saw that the fundamental thing people sought was meaning. There was no power or pleasure to be had in a concentration camp. There was, howe

Can you say “congruence”?

The mind must be understood – if not, it will be your master. What slave is ever happy?

Once a man accepts that he holds not just his own thoughts but the collective conscious of the many both past and present then he will be able to utilize the common patterns that can be found in all our subconsciouses.

Ego States Theory and Therapy

The creator of psychoanalysis and the man synonymous with the discovery of the unconscious saw instead a ‘natural unhappiness’ as the preferred aim. The modest goal of his revolutionary talking therapy was a removal of neurotic or ‘unnatural’ forms of unhappiness and a restoration of the patient (somewhat surprisingly to modern ears) to an ordinary

(As an aside, I often wonder how long this will continue to be true for our profession. In my practice, I've worked with several psychotherapists who, having just finished a graduate program consisting almost entirely of cognitive-behavioral therapy, feel despair at the prospect of working mechanically with patients in a behavioral prescriptive mod