Showing papers on "Logotherapy published in 1979"

Treatment of alcoholics with logotherapy.

Abstract: This study evaluates the results of group logoanalysis with selected hospitalized alcoholics using the Purpose in Life (PIL) Test as a before-and-after measure of therapeutic outcome in comparison with controls. Results suggest that closed-end logoanalysis groups are superior to open-end groups, and that both are superior to controls in improving the patient's sense of meaning and purpose in life as measured by the PIL.

Logotherapy as a bridge between religion and psychotherapy.

Abstract: 13. Professor Jack Van Hooser of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary's Department of Old Testament Literature and Languages is currently preparing a critique of Freud's Moses and Monotheism for an article we are writing together. 14. Zimet, C. N., "The Masters Degree in Applied Psychology: An Issue That Will Not Go Away," The Psychotherapy Bulletin, 1976, 9 (4), 3. 15. There are presently over 250 Clinical Pastoral Education centers that provide pastoral train ing for ministers, seminary students, and other religious workers. They are located in psychiatric and general hospitals, penal and correctional institutions, juvenile treatment centers, parishes and intercity missions, community mental health centers, counseling and rehabilitation centers, children's homes, and centers for the aging. Further information may be secured from the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc., c/o Interchurch Center, Suite 450, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, New York 10027. 16. By "intermodal" I mean individual, shortand long-term psychotherapy, conjoint marital and/or divorce counseling, as well as group psychotherapy, and crisis intervention. 17. Kohut, H., The Restoration of the Self. New York, International Universities Press, 1977, p. 271. 18. In an unpublished paper Kohut makes a similar comment about another award-winning film. His focus is false sexuality, a characteristic so evident in Saturday Night Fever:

Logotherapy in Action

Abstract: Boss’s approach, too, is reductionist in a way he does not appear to notice. The many subtle and useful differentiations of the other schools are reduced to a few general statements that do not allow us to appreciate the intellectual and therapeutic value of the differentiations. (I believe this is especially true of his discussions of transference.) Existential writings often have a flat, broad quality, for all their occasional rising to poetry and philosophy, that does not fit well the uneven terrain of actual clinical work. I write this appreciating that Boss’s own clinical work probably does not imitate his conceptualizations. It is very hard to write accurately of clinical work. Finally, one must acknowledge the many values ofthe cxistential viewpoint that this book underlines: existential work, more than any other, appreciates the importance of thefuture: we know, but often refuse to acknowledge, our flimsy structure of causes (different causes can produce the same psychopathological picture, and the same cause can produce very different pictures). Further, a heightened understanding of dreams springs from seeing them as translations of actual human situations, and the description and understanding ofaffects profits greatly from the phenomenological approach. If reprinted, the book should be carefully proofread.