We live in an age when the meaning and purpose of life are often less clear than ever before. An age when we’re asking questions of doctors we should be asking priests - but few priests seem able to provide meaningful answers to today’s spiritual seekers. Enter Viktor Frankl.

Frankl was a Jewish psychiatrist whose pioneering work known as Logotherapy has helped millions of suffering men and women begin asking the right questions of life and finding answers that satisfy their souls.

In this series, we explore Frankl’s book The Doctor and the Soul. Fr. Bill’s guest and tour guide is Tom Lavin, a therapist, teacher, and friend who has studied Frankl’s work for years and helped many addicts and alcoholics find new or renewed meaning and purpose in their recovery. This episode explores the existential meaning of love. What it is … What is it not … And how to find it in recovery.

Show Notes:

Links to Tom’s website and his LIVE BETTER television series can be Accessed here.

https://contextualscience.org/tom_lavin_mft_lcadc_acata_live_better_psychoeducat

Video of Viktor Frankl

The Doctor and the Soul via Amazon: (Many used copies should be available)

Link to First Corinthians XIII

M. Scott Peck on Love

https://apathlesstravelled.com/love-what-it-is-what-it-is-not-and-what-its-role-is-part-2/

Bill Wilson’s article on Emotional Sobriety

The Sexual Crucible by David Schnarch (used copies)

Being open to possibilities and avoiding labels