SPR205 Logotherapy and Existential Analysis

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
1/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Dipl.-Theol. Univ. Stanislava Ševčíková, MBA, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Libor Musil, CSc.
Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Supplier department: Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Fri 9. 3. 8:00–13:30 U53, Fri 6. 4. 8:00–13:30 U53, Fri 4. 5. 8:00–13:30 U53
Prerequisites (in Czech)
( SPP103 Theories of Social Work || SPR103 Theories of Social Work ) && ! SPP205 Logotherapy
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 22 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/22, only registered: 0/22, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/22
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course: To acqauint students with logotherapeutic and existential-analytic approach to the client. They are teached the basic themes of logotherapy and existential analysis in the context of humanistic thinking and perspectives. In practical exercises students taste some experiences. At the end of this course, students should be able to: understand and be able to explain meaning of loss (or absence of meaning in the lives of clients and its originating of inability of social functioning) and to copy with owns problems in the personal and professional life.
Syllabus
  • Structure of course: 1. Introduction and organisatioonal issues 2. Intruduction to logotherapy and existential analysis. Embedding to the existential approaches in the philosophical thinking 3. Diagnostics in logotherapy and EA 4. Values and meaning of life 5. Selfvalue and meaning of life 6. Conscience and search for meaning 7. Work and search of meaning 8. Age and search for meaning 9. Crisis intervention in logotherapy 10. Love (family) 11. Logotherapeutic imagination 12. Existential analysis of dreams 13. Logotherapy and spiritual life 14. Feedback to the teacher
Literature
  • FRANKL, Viktor Emil. A přesto říci životu ano : psycholog prožívá koncentrační tábor. Translated by Josef Hermach. 3. vyd. Kostelní Vydří: Karmelitánské nakladatelství, 2006, 175 s. ISBN 8071928666. info
  • FRANKL, Viktor Emil. Lékařská péče o duši : základy logoterapie a existenciální analýzy. Translated by Vladimír Jochmann. Brno: Cesta, 2006, 237 s. ISBN 8072950851. info
  • FRANKL, Viktor Emil and Elisabeth S. LUKAS. Vůle ke smyslu : vybrané přednášky o logoterapii. Brno: Cesta, 2006, 212 s. ISBN 8072950843. info
  • FRANKL, Viktor Emil. Vůle ke smyslu : vybrané přednášky o logoterapii. 2. čes. vyd. Brno: Cesta, 1997, 212 s. ISBN 8085139632. info
  • FRANKL, Viktor Emil. Man's search for meaning. 1st print. New York: Washington square press, 1985, 221 s. ISBN 0-671-02337-3. info
  • FRANKL, Viktor Emil. Das Leiden am sinnlosen Leben : Psychotherapie für heute. Freiburg: Herder, 1977, 126 s. ISBN 3451076152. info
  • FRANKL, Viktor Emil. From death-camp to existentialism : a psychiatrist's path to a new therapy. Boston: Beacon Press, 1959, xii, 111. info
Teaching methods
Teaching consist of 14 weeks of teaching end exercises, f. e. playing roles, loosing cases. For a lecture students are preparing by reading and writing of reflexions.
Assessment methods
Credit: 80% of presence, active approach of the student to the lecture and 12 short reflexive essays.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020.
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