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The Importance of Meaning in Psychotherapy
Logotherapy deviates from psychoanalysis in Saffar as it considers manna being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning. In Nazi concentration camps, those who knew that there was a task waiting for them to fulfill were most apt to survive. What man needs is not homeostasis but what I call new Dynamics - existential dynamics where one pole is represented by a meaning that is to be fulfilled and the other pole by the man who has to fulfill it.