Editing Logotherapy (section)

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'''Logotherapy''' is a form of [[existential therapy]] developed by [[neurologist]] and [[psychiatrist]] [[Viktor Frankl]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Proper palliative care makes assisted dying unnecessary |language=en |newspaper=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/08/24/proper-palliative-care-makes-assisted-dying-unnecessary |access-date=2018-09-17}}</ref> It is founded on the premise that the primary motivational force of individuals is to find [[Meaning of life|meaning in life]].<ref name="Marshall2012" /> Frankl describes it as "the Third Viennese School of [[Psychotherapy]]"<ref name="Frankl2006">{{Cite book |last=Frankl, Viktor |url=https://archive.org/details/manssearchformea00vikt |title=Man's Search for Meaning |date=1 June 2006 |publisher=Beacon Press |isbn=978-0-8070-1427-1 |access-date=8 May 2012 |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>[[Gordon Allport]], from the Preface to ''[[Man's Search for Meaning]]'', p. xiv</ref> along with [[Freud]]'s [[psychoanalysis]] and [[Alfred Adler|Alfred Adler's]] [[individual psychology]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Logotherapy: The benefits of finding meaning in life |language=en |work=Medical News Today |url=https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320814.php |access-date=2018-09-17}}</ref>

Logotherapy is based on an [[Existential therapy|existential analysis]]<ref name="InstituteVienna">{{Cite web |title=About |url=http://www.viktorfrankl.org/e/logotherapy.html |access-date=22 May 2012 |publisher=Viktor Frankl Institute Vienna}}</ref> focusing on [[Kierkegaard]]'s ''[[Meaning (existential)|will to meaning]]'' as opposed to Adler's [[Nietzsche]]an doctrine of ''[[will to power]]'' or Freud's ''[[will to pleasure]]''. Rather than power or pleasure, logotherapy is founded upon the belief that striving to find meaning in life is the primary, most powerful motivating and driving force in [[human]]s.<ref name="Marshall2012">{{Cite book |last1=Maria Marshall |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gnZxPpqDjUUC |title=Logotherapy Revisited: Review of the Tenets of Viktor E. Frankl's Logotherapy |last2=Edward Marshall |date=2012 |publisher=Ottawa Institute of Logotherapy |isbn=978-1-4781-9377-7 |location=Ottawa |oclc=1100192135 |access-date=16 February 2020}}</ref> A short introduction to this system is given in Frankl's most famous book, ''[[Man's Search for Meaning]]'' (1946), in which he outlines how his theories helped him to survive his [[Holocaust]] experience and how that experience further developed and reinforced his theories. Presently, there are a number of [[List of logotherapy institutes|logotherapy institutes]] around the world.