Logotherapy and Where God Fits In Although logotherapy is not a Christian based theory, there is a place for God in Victor Frankl’s theory. Victor Frankl lost many of his loved one’s in the Holocaust causing him emotional and physical suffering, but through his struggles he created logotherapy. Logotherapy is a therapy that focuses on meaning and finding meaning in everything we do and think. Whereas Freud and other Psychologists have been publically against Christianity, Frankl did not express an unfavorable view of Christianity, and many of his views can be integrated with a belief in God. Many aspects of Frankl’s theory have biblical parallels. Logotherapy focuses on meaning rather than the social or sexual stages of development that …show more content…
Frankl’s system shows man being “responsible to himself”, rather than being “responsible before God”. In this system man is responsible for his actions and deciding what his existence will be and mean and he looks to himself rather than God for his answers. Frankl’s goal of logotherapy is to have one find their meaning, “yet not limiting meaning to oneself alone”. Although Frankl did put God in his practice of logotherapy, there is room for integration and room for God to be incorporated in logotherapy. The search for meaning can lead to God, free will can be used in the boundaries set by God and man can be responsible to God rather than himself after discovering the meaning of life from …show more content…
Frankl argued to be fully alive one “must integrate the body, mind and spirit” which are also integrated and a focus in the Christian faith. Once faith and God are discovered, Christians are taught to praise and glorify God with their body, soul and mind and all three aspects are important to integrate in the faith as well. He believed in free will and that people were responsible for their actions which is another theme we see in the Bible. God gave us free will as well as guidelines to live within to keep us responsible to him. Although Frankl did not believe in freewill to the extent that it is in the Christian faith, but he did believe that people had free will to make choices and decisions especially when it came to handling difficult
This is David Entwistle 2nd edition book published in 2010 by Wipf and Stock in Oregon. Entwistle is a Christian and a licensed psychologist; he has affiliations with Molone University in Canton, Ohio serving as chair of the Psychology Department and has taught courses related to his licensed field. This book clearly is not written for any newcomers to religion. However, it was written for those interested in the integration of science and religion. The authors’ purpose for writing this book was to define the relationship between psychology and theology. There are three specific areas this book touched upon to help readers’ better approach psychology and Christianity in a personal and more professional manner: The context of philosophical issues and worldview, to help the readers become aware of assumptions or beliefs- making the reader a more critical evaluators, and to introduce and familiarize the reader with five paradigms for integrating psychology and theology.
David Entwistle’s (2010) is the author of the Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity. In the book Entwistle embarks on a journey to explore Psychology and Christianity. As the title suggests several approaches that are used to define the relationship of Phycology and Christianity. In the book Entwistle begins to takes us on shows that psychology and Christianity go in two different directions and meet up someplace in the middle. This allows them to provide different approaches to understanding and studying the human behavior. Entwistle, (2010) took a new approach that has rarely been used in other books that discussed the topic of integration. Entwistle, (2010) began to talk about the relationship of psychology and Christianity
David Entwistle’s Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity David Entwistle's (2010) Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity is geared more towards Christians with conservative evangelical views and provides the reader with an outline to different worldview disputes and truth-seeking groundwork that surround the connection that underlies psychology and theology. In addition to analyzing the possible connection between psychology and theology, Entwisle discusses the consideration of integrating Christian faith with the practice of psychology. “Christian understandings of person-hood, the purpose of human life, our need for God, and the ethical teachings of Christian faith are integral to psychology, not merely parallel to it” (p. 199). Entwistle’s viewpoint on this matter is clearly stated. He believes that it is necessary for theology and psychology to be integrated in order to fully understand human nature.
Children and adults that are familiar with God and that have been taught that God is love, often associated their traumatic experiences in a negative way to their spirituality. Children and adults may relate their trauma experienced to a retribution by a punitive God and it can disrupt their spiritual belief and connection with God or a divine being (Bryant-Davis, et al., 2012). Individuals’ that have experienced trauma at times develop a negative and unsafe view of the world. The world is no longer a safe place for them. This negative connotation of the world could lead to many adverse effects throughout the development stages of a person. It could lead to mental health as well as a complete rejection of one’s faith, and mistrust that can lead to the inhibition of formatting healthy relationships with others or with God. Although, children and adults could develop a negative view against their God due to the negative experience, spirituality can also be a source of strength and a mechanism that can lead to recovery. Many times victims of a traumatic event use their spirituality as a form of coping skill that leads to a better understanding and acceptance of their past or present circumstances. This positive view of spirituality can later be restored through means of different styles of
The Purple Pillow ad is a great advertisement piece that uses many strategies to persuade people to buy their pillow. Purple uses many tried and true advertisement techniques including humor and the ethical appeals logos and ethos. After the ad has one’s attention it fills the viewer’s brain with the aforementioned ethical appeals hidden in simple claims and the setting of the ad. This ad for the Purple Pillow is very effective because it uses facts to convince one that they need to buy a Purple Pillow.
Entwistle’s book explores the links and integration between psychology and Christianity. As the title explains this book paints a picture of the conflicting worldviews and philosophical foundations that people perceive about how they can be integrated. Entwistle provides research through scholarly reflection and various models that link both psychology and Christianity together. Entwistle remarked by saying “There are many events that raise both theological and psychological questions and such events serve as useful springboards to investigate links between Christian theology and other disciplines” (Entwistle, 2015, p. 8). This statement sets the stage for the readers to understand how some events throughout history have laid the
“Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity” (2010) is about the purposeful integration of psychology and Christianity. Entwistle, discusses the integration of scripture and nature, holding to historic orthodox Christianity that “Scripture and the natural world have their origins in God’s creativity and revelation” (Entwistle, 2010, p. 136). Theology clarifies the Word of God (Bible), and Psychology corresponds with the works of God. A working definition of integration is offered,
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In this article Divecha and Stern used logos effectively in the Washington post article. In the article they stated that “A 2013 survey of 380 college counseling departments across the country shows that anxiety is the most common presenting problems in their offices, followed by depression and relationship problems”. The reason why it is so successful is because not only did they do surveys, but these things were actually happening to the college students and they couldn’t face these problems alone. It started to become an issue as stated in paragraph six “Many have suffered in silence due to the stigma of loneliness”, In addition to that this causes more health problems for the students.
According to Existential psychotherapy, inner conflict within an individual are caused by personal confrontation with person is due to that individual 's confrontation with his/her own principles. Such principles are the inability to evade death, one’s freedoms and the responsibilities bestowed upon them and phenomenology as coined by Irvin D. Yalom. These principles form the basis for conceptualization
Logotherapy was initially developed by Holocaust survivor Viktor E. Frankl whilst he endured the horrors of a concentration camp, as described in his novel Man’s Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy. At the core of logotherapy is the insistence that man desires to fulfill his life by giving it significance and filli...
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Fritz and Laura Perls are responsible for the founding of gestalt therapy in the 1940’s. From there on, Gestalt has contributed significantly to the field of psychotherapy, counseling, and personal development. When therapist uses this method, his or her ultimate aim is to ensure the client achieves personal growth and development. To achieve this outcome, gestalt utilizes existential philosophy and phenomenology. In summary, this form of therapy aims to empower the patient to use his internal and external senses for the purposes of developing personal responsibility and a self-supportive system (Franzke 1999; Corcoran & Daly 2008).
The meaning of life, defined by Victor E. Frankl, is the will to find your meaning in life. It is not the meaning of life in general, but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment. He believes that if you are approached with the question of “what is the meaning of my life” or in this case, “life is meaningless,” then you should reverse the question to that person asking the question. For example: What are you bringing to me? What are you as an individual contributing to this life? This forces the person in question to take a look at themselves and to ultimately be responsible. Frankl says that if you are a responsible member of society than the meaning of life transcends from yourself rather from your own psyche. He also says that if we for some reason cannot find meaning within ourselves it has to be from some outside source. This is referred to as service. And an example of this is love. Victor Frankl describes three ways in which we can discover the meaning of life; Creating work-doing a deed, experiencing something-someone, and by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.