The Will to Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
Lectures on logotherapy's foundations and applications: the existential vacuum, paradoxical intention, dereflection, and meaning as the primary motivation. Short and technical.
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you want logotherapy's methods, briefly.
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you want the memoir.
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Three things you will actually use
- Paradoxical intention: wish for the symptom.
- Dereflection: look away from yourself.
- Fill the vacuum with meaning, not pleasure.
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Read the chapter on paradoxical intention.
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Logotherapy's methods.
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