Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: Proceedings of the Viktor Frankl Institute Vienna, Volume 1

PART 1. From the Archives.- Economic Crisis and Mental Health from the Viewpoint of the Youth Counselor.- Questions and Answers.- Memorial Speech on the 40th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Türkheim Concentration Camp (Dachau Complex), 27 April 1985.- Memorial Speech on the 50th Anniversary of Austria's Incorporation into Germany Rathausplatz, Vienna, March 10, 1988.- Two Letters after the Liberation from the last Concentration Camp, Türkheim (Dachau Complex).-  PART 2. Research.- Measuring Purpose.- The State of Empirical Research on Logotherapy and Existential Analysis.- The Structural Validity and Internal Consistency of a Spanish Version of the Purpose in Life Test.- Factorial Structure of Längle's Existence Scale.-  Meanings of Meaningfulness of Life.- Meaning and Automatic Stereotyping: Advancing an Agenda for Research.- PART 3. Applied and Clinical Logotherapy and Existential Analysis.- The Pathogenesis of Mental Disorders. An Update of Logotherapy.- Relevance and Application of Logotherapy to Enhance Resilience to Stress and Trauma.- Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP) for advanced cancer patients.- Enhancing Psychological Resiliency in Older Men Facing Retirement with Meaning-Centered Men's Groups.- Amelioration of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Using Paradoxical Intention.- Family Adaptation in Families with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).- Integrating Logotherapy with Cognitive Behavior Therapy: A Worthy Challenge.- Workload, Existential Fulfillment and Work Engagement Among City Council Members.- Meaning and Trauma. From Psychosocial Recovery to Existential Affirmation. A Note on V. Frankl's Contribution to the Treatment of Psychological Trauma.- Logotherapy and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): A Case Study of a Kidnapping in Guatemala.- Unimaginable Pain: Dealing with Suicide in the Workplace.- PART 4. Existential Psychology and the Humanities.- Acceptance Speech (Honorary Professorship, bestowed from the University Institute of Psychoanalysis, Moscow).- Logotherapy beyond Psychotherapy: Dealing with the Spiritual Dimension.- The world still cries for meaning - are we still listening?.- The Importance of Meaning in Positive Psychology and Logotherapy.- Meaning-Seeking, Self-Transcendence, and Well-being.- Laudatio for Eleonore Frankl.- PART 5. Philosophy.- What are Minds For?.- Towards a Tri-Dimensional Model of Happiness: A Logo-Philosophical Perspective.- "Meaning until the last breath":  Practical applications of logotherapy in the ethical consideration of coma, brain death, and persistent vegetative states.- PART 6. Book Reviews.- Before Prozac. The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry by Edward Shorter.- Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry II. Nosology by Kenneth S. Kendler and Josef Parnas (Editors).- The Healing Companion: Stories for Courage, Comfort and Strength by The Healing Project.- Mind and its Place in the World and Irreducibly Conscious. Selected Papers on Consciousness.  by Alexander Batthyany and Avshalom Elitzur (Editors).- Identity: Complex or Simple?, by Georg Gasser & Matthias Stefan (Editors).- Tragic Sense of Life, by Miguel de Unamuno.- Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man,by Allan Beveridge.- PART 7. Institutional Section.-About the Viktor Frankl Institute Vienna.- International Directory of Accredited Institutes and Initiatives for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis.- PhD Program in Logotherapy.