The Logotherapy is a psychoanalytic school specialized in offering advice on search for meaning in life. This search for meaning becomes a valuable tool to shine a light on painful situations. In other words, all that suffering that has a meaning is not only less painful but also contributes to inner growth.
Logotherapy starts from the value of the human being as a unique and unrepeatable being. Just as Aristotle expressed that every human being naturally desires to seek happiness and Thomas Aquinas explained in his texts that human beings naturally seek happiness. pleasure and joy and avoids suffering and sadness in the same way, Logotherapy indicates that one of the most important desires of the human heart is the search for sense.
However, it should be pointed out that there is no single meaning for all men, that is, there is no universal concept since this search for meaning is totally subjective. The meaning refers to the purpose, that is, the purpose of something. Although it can also be linked to causality. In this context, meaning brings meaning to human questions such as: Why is this happening to me?
Logotherapy is a school of hope, a psychotherapy of humanism that starts from the realism of life itself as an experience in which suffering is inevitable.
exist two types of pain: the one who is avoidable, and therefore, it is totally unnecessary. And he who transcends the will and requires a search for meaning to cope better and humanize that experience (sometimes, the pain is inhuman).
This search for meaning starts from the notion of the human being as a spiritual being who has reason, will and also freedom.
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