Logotherapy is psychotherapy based on the belief that the search for meaning, even amidst misery and suffering or through the worst conditions that can be imagined, can constitute a potential solution to human suffering. Pioneered by Victor Frankl, who wrote one of the most influential books of all time, Man’s Search for Meaning provides us the playbook for making sense of all this. Frankl who spent three years in four concentration camps, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Kaufering III, and Türkheim, survived and related his experiences in finding meaning.
When there is a path of hope, everything in our lives gets better. Suicide prevention work is all rooted in this. We realize the struggle is the struggle, but it is also realizing that you get to decide what to do with it. We need something to care about whether it is people, art, dignity, connection, joy, suffering, a cause…Finding meaning helps us create values to live our lives.