Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy

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The Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy is an existential and humanistic therapeutic movement centered on logotherapy, emphasizing the human search for meaning as the primary motivational force in life.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf existential psychotherapy approach
psychological movement
school of psychotherapy
addresses existential vacuum
loss of meaning
appliedIn clinical psychotherapy
counseling
palliative care
pastoral care
associatedWith Viktor Frankl
logotherapy practitioners
basedOn logotherapy
cityOfOrigin Vienna
contrastsWith Vienna Psychoanalytic Society
surface form: First Viennese School of Psychotherapy

The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology
surface form: Second Viennese School of Psychotherapy
coreConcept existential meaning
freedom of will
logotherapy
responsibility
countryOfOrigin Austria
distinguishesFrom drive-centered psychoanalysis
power-centered individual psychology
emphasizes human search for meaning
meaning as primary motivational force in life
field existential psychology
humanistic psychology
psychotherapy
focusesOn will to meaning
foundedBy Viktor Frankl
hasPhilosophicalOrientation existentialism
humanism
historicalPosition follows psychoanalysis and individual psychology in Vienna
influencedBy Viktor Frankl's Holocaust experience
existential philosophy
phenomenology
keyText Man's Search for Meaning
originatedInContextOf post-World War II Vienna
predecessor Vienna Psychoanalytic Society
surface form: First Viennese School of Psychotherapy

The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology
surface form: Second Viennese School of Psychotherapy
recognizes spiritual dimension of human existence
therapeuticGoal help clients discover meaning in life
support clients in assuming responsibility
therapeuticMethod Socratic method
surface form: Socratic dialogue

attitude modification
dereflection
paradoxical intention
timePeriod 20th century
viewsHumanBeingAs free and responsible
meaning-oriented
viewsSufferingAs potential source of meaning

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Viktor Frankl founded Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy
Viktor founded Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy
subject surface form: Viktor Frankl