Lagotherapy and Recovery: The Age of Anxiety

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 anxiety, a disease Frankl called “the disease of our time.” Tom explores the subject and suggests how Logotherapy can be of help.

Show Notes:

Tom Lavin is a Psychotherapist, Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) and a Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor. He’s served for many years as Adjunct Faculty, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Tom’s website and newsletter can be accessed at: www.easeap.com/ 

Tom’s LIVE BETTER television series provides tools to help people face and overcome their anxiety and other mental health and addiction issues. Be sure to download the worksheets that go along with the helpful videos.

https://contextualscience.org/tom_lavin_mft_lcadc_acata_live_better_psychoeducat

Ego and Archetype by Edward Edinger via Amazon (free pdf copies are available online)

The Doctor and the Soul by Viktor Frankl

Frankl Quote:

“ … psychotherapy has given too little attention to the spiritual reality of man.

“For the aim of the psychotherapist should be to bring out the ultimate possibilities of the patient, to realize his latent values, remembering the aphorism of Goethe,

‘… if we take people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat them as if they were what they ought to be, we help them to become what they are capable of becoming.