Examples of Applications of Logotherapy

The author presents examples of ways he has applied logotherapy over almost 50 years, discussing both simple and complex applications. Examples include logotherapy applied to self and others, individually and in groups. Representative conversations illustrate the author’s employment of short-term individual logotherapy with locked-ward psychiatric inpatients reacting in anger to their confinement and with general hospital patients experiencing despair subsequent to terminal medical diagnoses. Other generalized cases outline longer-term logotherapeutic interventions the author often employed in a group format with persons experiencing addiction problems, prolonged depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).