LogotherapyWith a Postgraduate Degree in Existential Analysis

Description

Logotherapy is a form of psychotherapy grounded in the theory of existential motivation — the person's recognition of the meaning of their life. The will to meaning, as the driver of behavior, offers a comprehensive approach to the theory of human conduct.

This psychotherapy is rooted in the spiritual dimension of the person, through which the psychotherapist can access freedom of choice, responsibility, attitude, and awareness of uniqueness as fundamental elements in treating existential emptiness (noogenic neurosis).

Dereflection, paradoxical intention, attitude modification, self-distancing, and self-transcendence are among the effective tools Logotherapy offers the psychotherapist in clinical practice. The principles developed by Dr. Viktor Emil Frankl apply across every humanistic discipline — hence its name, the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy.

Objectives

• ✦Equip professionals with a psychotherapy technique that fosters personal freedom and responsibility, at a time when reductionist scientism threatens to reduce the person to the category of object.
• ✦Provide the most effective existential tools to conduct a psychotherapeutic process and deepen the meaning of human existence in its personal, family, educational, social, and spiritual dimensions.
• ✦Prepare professionals capable of fostering a meaningful life through a deep exploration of the values, ideals, goals, and ultimate ends that define the human being.

Graduate profile

The Logotherapist is a professional with full command of Logotherapy and the optimal use of logotherapeutic tools in the psychotherapeutic process, accompanying the person toward emotional stability. Within the process, they will be equipped to:

• ✦Foster the person's freedom and responsibility, precisely in an era when technology and reductionist scientism threaten to reduce them to the category of object.
• ✦Develop an initial, dynamic, and comprehensive diagnosis and a holistic treatment plan, respecting each person's uniqueness and existential stance.
• ✦Provide the most effective existential tools to conduct a psychotherapeutic process and deepen the meaning of human existence: personal, family, educational, social, and spiritual.
• ✦Maintain a spirit of lifelong study, making relevant, up-to-date use of Logotherapy within the Guatemalan context.
• ✦Develop the skills and knowledge needed to successfully build a meaningful life, through a deep exploration of the values, ideals, goals, and ultimate ends that truly shape the person.

Curriculum

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