Logotherapy Theory

. Frankl says that logotherapy is the things that his patients will fulfill in their future and that it is a "meaning-centered psychotherapy", as Frankl puts it. Also, Frankl says that logotherapy is basically an escape from getting neurosis (an mild illness with side effects of depression, anxiety, etc.). Overall, logotherapy is a way of telling his patients that there is a meaning to their lives, also a way to stop the development of neurosis or at least slow it down.
2. A psychoanalyst is someone who listens to the patient as the patient is lying down on a couch tell them things that are "very disagreeable to tell," as Frankl puts it. Also, the psychoanalyst doesn't speak much in the session. Psychotherapy is almost the same thing but, …show more content…
Adler's theory was a theory of personality, where he claimed that every single person was unique and that people have the desire to reach our potentials and become a "perfect person". On the other hand, Frankl's theory was logotherapy, which was based on existential therapy, where all the problems that someone had, it would affect how a person approached their meaning of life. This is where logotherapy came in, helping people understand their meaning of life. There were 3 ways of finding the meaning of life; the meaning of suffering, the meaning of love and the meaning of existence. Freud's theory was that there is a lot in our minds that we are completely oblivious to; the unconscious mind. This is where he developed psychoanalysis. He came up with the idea of psychoanalysis so he could get a deeper look into his patient's "unconscious mind" and see their …show more content…
I think that humans for the most part are "basically good" because people may make a few mistakes here and there in their lives, but that's because they probably have something negative going on in their lives. The negativity in their lives is affecting them causing them to do bad things. This relates to Frankl's meaning of suffering. In the book, "Man's Search for Meaning," Frankl says, " We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed." This quote is saying that even though something bad is going on in our lives doesn't mean we still can't find our meaning in life. People may make mistakes here and there, but that doesn't make us bad people, it just allows us to learn from our mistakes. I think we are worthy of the name humans because humans aren't perfect, humans make mistakes and humans also do good things. That is exactly who we