Integrating Logotherapy with Cognitive Behavior Therapy: A Worthy Challenge

Abstract

This landmark volume introduces the new series of proceedings from the Viktor Frankl Institute, dedicated to preserving the past, disseminating the present, and anticipating the future of Franklian existential psychology and psychotherapy, i.e. logotherapy and existentialanalysis . Wide-ranging contents keep readers abreast of current ideas, findings, and developments in the field while also presenting rarely-seen selections from Frankl's work. Established contributors report on new applications of existential therapies in specific (OCD, cancer, end-of-life issues) and universal (the search for meaning) contexts as well as intriguing possibilities for opening up dialogue with other schools of psychology. And this initial offering establishes the tenor of the series by presenting varied materials across the field, including: Archival and unpublished articles and lectures by Frankl. Peer-reviewed studies on logotherapy process, measures, and research. New case studies using logotherapy and existential analysis in diverse settings. Papers advocating cross-disciplinary collaboration. Philosophical applications of existential psychology. Critical reviews of logotherapy-related books. Volume 1 of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis will attract a wide audience, including psychologists (clinical, social, personality, positive), psychotherapists of different schools, psychiatrists in private practice, and researchers in these fields. Practitioners in counseling, pastoral psychology, coaching, and medical care will also welcome this new source of ideas and inspiration. PART 1. From the archives -- Economic crisis and mental health from the viewpoint of the youth counselor / Viktor E. Frankl -- Questions and answers / Viktor E. Frankl -- Memorial speech on the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the Türkheim concentration camp (Dachau Complex), 27 April 1985 / Viktor E. Frankl -- Memorial speech on the 50th anniversary of Austria's incorporation into Germany Rathausplatz, Vienna, March 10, 1988 / Viktor E. Frankl -- Two letters after the liberation from the last concentration camp, Türkheim (Dachau Complex) / Viktor E. Frankl -- PART 2. Research -- Measuring purpose / Kendall Cotton Bronk -- The state of empirical research on logotherapy and existential analysis / Michael Thir, Alexander Batthyány -- The structural validity and internal consistency of a Spanish version of the purpose in life test / Joaquín García-Alandete, Eva Rosa Martínez, Pilar Sellés Nohales, Gloria Bernabé Valero, Beatriz Soucase Lozano -- Factorial structure of Längle's Existence Scale / André Brouwers, Welko Tomic -- Meanings of meaningfulness of life / Shulamith Kreitler -- Meaning and automatic stereotyping : advancing an agenda for research / Ivonne A. Florez, Stefan E. Schulenberg, Tracie L. Stewart -- PART 3. Applied and clinical logotherapy and existential analysis -- The pathogenesis of mental disorders : an update of logotherapy / Elisabeth Lukas -- Relevance and application of logotherapy to enhance resilience to stress and trauma / Steven M. Southwick, Bernadette T. Lowthert, Ann V. Graber -- Meaning-centered psychotherapy (MCP) for advanced cancer patients / William S. Breitbart -- Enhancing psychological resiliency in older men facing retirement with meaning-centered men's groups / Marnin J. Heisel, The Meaning-Centered Men's Group project team -- Amelioration of obsessive-compulsive disorder using paradoxical intention / Marshall H. Lewis -- Family adaptation in families with children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) / Maria Ángeles Noblejas, Pilar Maseda, Isabel Pérez, Pilar Pozo -- Integrating logotherapy with cognitive behavior therapy : a worthy challenge / Matti Ameli -- Workload, existential fulfillment and work engagement among city council members / Marinka Tomic -- Meaning and trauma. From psychosocial recovery to existential affirmation. A note on V. Frankl's contribution to the treatment of psychological trauma / Georges-Elia Sarfati -- Logotherapy and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) : a case study of a kidnapping in Guatemala / Lucrecia Mollinedo de Moklebust -- Unimaginable pain : dealing with suicide in the workplace / Beate von Devivere -- PART 4. Existential psychology and the humanities -- Acceptance speech (honorary professorship, bestowed from the University Institute of Psychoanalysis, Moscow) / Elisabeth Lukas -- Logotherapy beyond psychotherapy : dealing with the spiritual dimension / Dmitry Leontiev -- The world still cries for meaning -- are we still listening? / William F. Evans -- The importance of meaning in positive psychology and logotherapy / Leo Michel Abrami -- Meaning-seeking, Self-transcendence, and well-being / Paul T.P. Wong -- Laudatio for Eleonore Frankl / Dmitry Leontiev -- PART 5. Philosophy -- What are minds for? / John Beloff -- Towards a tri-dimensional model of happiness : a logo-philosophical perspective / Stephen J. Costello -- "Meaning until the last breath" : practical applications of logotherapy in the ethical consideration of coma, brain death, and persistent vegetative states / Charles McLafferty Jr. -- PART 6. Book Reviews -- Before prozac. The troubled history of mood disorders in psychiatry by Edward Shorter / S. Nassir Ghaemi -- Philosophical issues in psychiatry II. Nosology by Kenneth S. Kendler and Josef Parnas (Editors) / Jacob Stegenga -- The healing companion : stories for courage, comfort and strength by The healing project / Christian Perring -- Mind and its place in the world and irreducibly conscious. Selected papers on consciousness. by Alexander Batthyany and Avshalom Elitzur (Editors) / Marshall H. Lewis -- Identity : complex or simple?, by Georg Gasser & Matthias Stefan (Editors) / Robert Zaborowski -- Tragic sense of life, by Miguel de Unamuno / Marianna D. Falcón Cooper -- Portrait of the psychiatrist as a young man, by Allan Beveridge / Sharon Packer -- PART 7. Institutional Section -- The Viktor Frankl Institute Vienna / Alexander Batthyány -- International Directory of Accredited Institutes and Initiatives for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis / Alexander Batthyány -- PhD Program in logotherapy / Alexander Batthyány.