PSYC 1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fundamental Interaction, The Need, Anomie
30 Apr 2015
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The positive psychology of meaning, purpose and spirituality. The pil scale (purpose in life: 2, 1, 1, 1. Library of congress declaration: one of the ten most influential books ever published in [the united states] , at the time of the frankl"s death in 1997, the book had sold 10 million copies in. Lack of psych well-being is symptomatic of an underlying existential vacuum : aka noogenic neurosis , a spiritual disorder, existential/spiritual/noetic frustration and distress, adaptive and maladaptive ways of filling the existential void, logotherapy. 1st axiom of logotherapy: frankl"s first axiom in logotherapy assumes that: the thirst for a sense if meaning and purpose in human life is a spiritual thirst, existential vacuum (ev) When we don"t perceive a why for our life, we more easily tire from the struggle of the how of life (death camp revelation) Definition of ev: subjective feelings of emptiness, void, boredom, the need that something is missing.
