This document discusses how logotherapy principles can help dying individuals and their families cope. It explains that logotherapy, like hospice care, recognizes that people have physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions. The author aims to show through examples how logotherapy can enhance hospice programs by helping people find meaning in suffering and even turn suffering into achievement during end of life.
Searching for happiness in the last phase of life 121011Roberto Lima Netto
Life passes rapidly and, when you open your eyes, you are in the third period of life. Now you are sixty or more; your middle-age goals have been achieved or adapted to what is possible. This [period may be very difficult or the happiest period of your life. How to find happiness?
Searching for happiness in the last phase of life 121011Roberto Lima Netto
Life passes rapidly and, when you open your eyes, you are in the third period of life. Now you are sixty or more; your middle-age goals have been achieved or adapted to what is possible. This [period may be very difficult or the happiest period of your life. How to find happiness?
1. ABSTRACT
When a person and their family are confronted with the realization of dying, there
are a great variety of reactions. All involved will face this challenge in different ways.
It is the purpose of this work to show how the principles and tenets of
Logotherapy can be applied to help both, the dying person and the family, through this
difficult experience. I will use the life experiences of several people to demonstrate how
Logotherapy enhances the Hospice program. Logotherapy and Hospice deal with the
inescapable fate that every person and family will experience.
Both Logotherapy and Hospice recognize that man is a three-dimensional being
consisting of a body (soma), soul (psyche), and spirit (noos). A person’s spirit (noos),
during this time, can be challenged in many ways. By applying Logotherapy, I believe,
suffering can be turned into triumph and achievement!
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