Victor Frankl Archive Set (8 audio tapes)

The following eight audiotapes are available as a set.

Tape 1. Logotherapy as a Psychotherapeutic Technique. (University of Illinois, Feb. 1963) This tape presents an essential explication of the methods of Logotherapy. Learn to use dereflection and paradoxical intention. Understand the application of these methods with OCD and suicidal patients. Learn about the fundamentals of Logotherapy with schizophrenics. Frankl describes applications and limitations of the methods he founded, and he elucidates them with case reports. Lecture and Q&A session. Excellent audio quality.

Tape 2. Mans Need and Search for Values. (Religion in Education Foundation, Oct. 1963) Frankl makes preliminary remarks and then is the subject of a discussion with knowledgeable experts who challenge him to reveal the essentials of his philosophy. Frankl distinguishes between values and meaning, elucidating the distinction between objective and subjective meaning. This tape affords an opportunity to experience his passion and scope. Lecture and Q&A session. Superb audio quality.

Tape 3. The Pluralism of Science and the Unity of Man. (University of Vienna, May 1965) We are damned by the limitations of our lenses and redeemed by the depth of our vision. In this wide-ranging lecture, Frankl alerts us to the danger of reductionism in science and psychotherapy. He describes the need for a unitary perspective that encompasses basic human strivings. Lecture. Fair audio quality.

Tape 4. The Concept of Man in Logotherapy. (Iowa, Nov. 1965) Here, Frankl offers a profound and articulate of vision of the transcendental nature of man. Inspiring and edifying, Frankl is the poet laureate of meaning. Quoting from the masters, he demonstrates the heights of his existential perspective. Lecture. Excellent audio quality.

Tape 5. Public Lecture. (Neurological Policlinic of Vienna, circa 1960) This tape features two lectures, one of 30 minutes on the philosophy underlying Logotherapy, and one of 20 minutes consisting of a clinical presentation on the collective neuroses of our time. Together, they bring listeners Frankl at his best. He is clear, erudite, insightful, original and inspiring. Superb audio quality.

Tape 6. The Meaning of Suffering. (Los Angeles, Jan. 1983) Frankl discusses how meaning can be found regardless of age, socioeconomic status, or race. Meaning is possible in spite of suffering: Despair is suffering without meaning. Frankls case for optimism, or belief in the possibility of meaning even in the worst of circumstances, is explicated. Two-part lecture and Q&A session. Good audio quality.

Tape 7. The Unheard Cry for Meaning. (Public Lecture, Massey Hall, Toronto, June 1977) Frankl discusses how feelings of meaninglessness and emptiness (the existential vacuum) are related to suicide, and how man will choose to take his life if he feels that life has no meaning. He also touches here on what he has characterized as the mass neurotic triad - depression, aggression and addiction - phenomena which only can be understood, he says, in light of the existential vacuum that underlies them. Lecture. Good audio quality.

Tape 8. San Quentin Lecture. (San Quentin Prison, California, May 1966) Frankl discusses how man fulfills meaning and that meaning must be found, it cannot be given. Conscience is the intuitive capacity of man. Frankl also describes three distinct ways of discovering meaning: by doing or creating something, by experiencing something or encountering someone; and by choosing ones attitude toward suffering. Lecture. Good audio quality.