Truth is a central concept in human thought. The philosophical reflection on the relationship to the human world and to reality was therefore always, directly or indirectly, a reflection on the meaning of the concept of truth. The question of the meaning of truth and of the conditions for human relation to truth has long been a fundamental question for philosophy because philosophy stands for the idea that human life as a whole is oriented towards truth, that is, for the idea of the life in critical responsibility. For Heidegger the question of truth is neither the question of the logical conditions of the statement about truth nor the question of beings, but the question of the truth of beings and the truth of being itself.
Starting from the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud and ‘individual psychology’ of Alfred Adler, Viktor Frankl (1905 - 1997) developed an independent approach, which he called ‘logotherapy and existential analysis’. Logotherapy and existential analysis is a clinically underpinned, meaning-oriented psychotherapeutic procedure. The aim of this procedure is to confront the patient with the question of meaning of his existence, and to accompany him in the search for concrete possibilities of meaning. Logotherapy provides help in recovering the meaning of one's life.
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