Tag: Meaning
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Bliss
Bliss: Encounters with Meaning in a Complex World explores Viktor Frankl’s understanding of joy and the search for meaning amid today’s global challenges. Moving through education, ethics, AI, moral injury, and end‑of‑life care, the book highlights how meaning strengthens resilience and deepens our capacity for hope. Featuring historical encounters with Frankl, Freud, Dame Cicely Saunders,…
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Cicely Saunders and Viktor Frankl
The Relevance of Meaning in Palliative Care Professor Maria Marshall Professor Edward Marshall January 10, 2026 According to a well-known anecdote, the famous anthropologist Margaret Mead was once asked by a group of students, “When did civilization start?” Some speculated that her answer would be along the lines of “When humans learned how to use
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How to Prevent AI from Making You Redundant
“Humans Don’t Simply Follow” “So verhinderst du, dass KI dich überflüssig macht.” An Interview with Dr. Elisabeth Lukas about Leadership and Meaning by Wilhelm Tupy. December 23, 2025. Transcribed and translated to English by Professor Maria Marshall on January 10, 2026. WT: Imagine what it would be like if 80 to 90 percent of your
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The Courage to Suffer
A Logotherapeutic Alternative to Toxic Positivity Professor Maria Marshall January 6, 2026 Addressing suffering is central in Viktor Frankl’s work. It is at the heart of his theory and therapy, Logotherapy and Existential Analysis. Following the conceptualization of the human being as a three-dimensional entity, Frankl recognized the aspects of suffering such as physical, mental,
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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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Competency-Based Education
Professor Edward Marshall Professor Maria Marshall September 3, 2025 The Ottawa Institute of Logotherapy has adopted a competency-based learning framework across our Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (LTEA) program to support students’ 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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Education 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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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 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…