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The Human Dimension of Spirit: A Necessity for Peace
Professor Edward Marshall December 16, 2025 While the world continues to reel from the impact of multiple armed conflicts, peace efforts—particularly in Ukraine—remain elusive. It is difficult to comprehend that, after centuries of historical lessons on the futility and devastation of war, Europe once again finds itself on the brink of calamity. Nonetheless, human beings
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Supervision and Consultation in Viktor E. Frankl’s Logotherapy
Professor Maria Marshall Professor Edward Marshall October 29, 2025 Introduction: Among the hundreds of psychotherapeutic approaches, there is perhaps none as versatile and flexible as Viktor E. Frankl’s Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (LTEA). This meaning-centered approach to psychotherapy has been described as “’…the last school whose teaching body has been developed in terms of a
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Competency-Based Education
Professor Edward Marshall Professor Maria Marshall Semptmeber 3, 2025 The Ottawa Institute of Logotherapy has adopted a competency-based learning framework across our Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (LTEA) program to support student’s growth in clarity, confidence, and real-world readiness. This approach focuses on how one applies key skills, insights, and professional standards in practice. We have
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Eduaction with Meaning
An Overview Professor Maria Marshall Professor Edward Marshall June 30, 2025 “Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow.” (Swedish proverb) For the past twenty years, we have been providing meaning-oriented education and psychotherapy according to the principles of Viktor E. Frankl’s Logotherapy and Existential Analysis. Our approach to psychotherapy contains a logo-educational
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Ambassadors of Hope
Four Keys from the Perspective of Viktor E. Frankl’s Logotherapy and Existential Analysis Professor Maria Marshall Professor Edward Marshall June 2, 2025 Introduction: Dr. Frankl once remarked that “…If we wanted to build a bridge from person to person—and this also applies to a bridge of reconciliation and understanding, the bridgeheads must not be the
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Being the Agents of Our Actions
Agency is often understood as the capacity to be in charge of our actions and decisions. It presupposes conscious awareness, and insight into the nature and consequence of our actions and decisions. However, it is not always taken for granted that we possess agency, nor is it always encouraged to have agency in clinical practice.…
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Pastoral Care during Life Transitions
Presented by: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Lukas Location: Catholic Private University, Linz, Austria Organized by: Prof. Dr. Klara-Antonia Csiszar Abstract: Viktoria Puchner (KU-Linz) Transcribed and trans…
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The World is not Well, but it can be Healed
[PASSIONSWEGE] “Stations of the Passion” Radio Talk Veronika Bonelli’s Interview with Alexander Batthyány February 21, 2024 Translated and summarized by Maria Marshall Key points: VB: “The Wo…
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The Meaning of Logotherapy in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
The Meaning of logotherapy in psychiatry and psychotherapy. Presentation by Dr. Cvijeta Pahljina (1943 – 2022), Psychiatrist, at The Future of Logotherapy Congress, Vienna, 2016. Translated b…
