tokyo lecture tour november 2012. seigakuin-university, tokyo
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Tokyo Lecture Tour
November 2012
Seigakuin-University, Tokyo
Dr. Kubotera
Meaning and the Tsunami
Affirmation of meaning in life is a bedrock foundation for survival and well-being.
18th Conference of Clinical
Thanatologists
Joshi-Seigakuin in Komagome, Tokyo
18TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF JAPANESEASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL THANATOLOGY
Logotherapy, Meaning Therapy,
& Spirituality©Paul T. P. Wong
Overview
• The role of meaning in spiritual care for cancer patients
• Dr. Frankl’s Logotherapy & his concept of spirituality
• Wong’s Meaning Therapy in tapping into the human capacity for meaning making
The Good Death
• A comfortable & pain-free death• A harmonious death• A meaningful death• A hopeful death• A peaceful death
Breitbart’s Meaning-Centered Group Therapy for Cancer Patients
• Session 1 – Concepts of meaning and sources of meaning
• Session 2 – Cancer and meaning• Session 3 – Meaning and historical context of life• Session 4 – Storytelling, life project• Session 5 – Limitations and finiteness of life• Session 6 – Responsibility, creativity, deeds• Session 7 – Experience, nature, art, humor• Session 8 – Termination, goodbyes, hopes for the
future
© Paul T. P. Wong
The Meaning Hypothesis• The capacity for meaning seeking and meaning
making (both existential & cognitive meaning)
• The primary motivation for meaning (both global meaning & situational meaning)
• Meaning offers us the best protection against existential anxieties and the best hope of living a worthy & vital life
• A meaning mindset is more adaptive than the success mindset.
The meaning mindset vs. the success mindset
SuccessFailure
Meaning Fulfillment
Emptiness
Ideal Life
Wasted Life
Shallow Life
Sacrificial Life
Gifts from our Japanese Hosts
Dr. Nagata
Katsutaro Nagata • WHO professor,
psychosomatic medicine and psychopharmacology
• Logotherapy approach to pain & illness
• Logotherapy as effective treatment for chronic pain