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Using Frankl's concepts with PTSD clients
Author(s) -
Lantz Jim
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of traumatic stress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.259
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-6598
pISSN - 0894-9867
DOI - 10.1002/jts.2490050311
Subject(s) - existentialism , meaning (existential) , nazism , psychology , value (mathematics) , mental health , psychotherapist , psychoanalysis , psychiatry , epistemology , history , philosophy , archaeology , machine learning , german , computer science
Viktor Frankl was one of the first mental health professionals who worked with and wrote about victims of trauma and terror. His existential treatment approach with Nazi death camp survivors has considerable value and usefulness with other kinds of PTSD clients. In Franklian psychotherapy, the PTSD client is helped to remember the details of their trauma experiences to identify meaning opportunities embedded in memories of trauma and terror and to make use of such meaning opportunities for self‐transcendent giving to the world.