Logotherapy in Practice

After the war, Frankl built logotherapy — therapy centered on finding meaning. Unlike Freud, who focused on pleasure, or Adler, who focused on power, Frankl argued that the deepest human drive is the will to meaning.

Logotherapy asks one question: what is life asking of you right now? Not what do you want from life, but what does life want from you. This reversal shifts you from passive victim to active participant. Responsibility becomes the engine of meaning, and meaning becomes the antidote to despair.