Logothérapie

The logothérapie was created by Viktor Frankl (1905 - 1997), étymologiquement, the care by the search for direction.

The logothérapie is a psychotherapy which is distinguished from that of Sigmund Freud and of that of Adler. Any human being is equipped with a primary motivation which is the orientation towards the direction of its life. Also, the therapeutist is not there to indicate the direction to the patient but to help it to admit the values which attract it, to discover the single being which it is and to carry out his Entéléchie, i.e. best possibilities registered in its concrete situation. Any individual has his own qualities and competences.

Viktor Frankl is distinguished from Sigmund Freud because he does not consider that the man is the toy of his own impulses. He is also opposed to the behaviorism because the Man is not completely determined by his social context. As an human being the man can freely choose his prospect, his position and his attitude vis-a-vis the conditions interior and external of his existence.

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