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Sunday, May 5, 2013

#53: Saying Yes to Life in Spite of Everything by Stephen J. Costello, PhD



Dr. Stephen J. Costello has given his kind permission for LogoTalk Radio to present his lecture entitled Saying Yes to Life in Spite of Everything.  This was the keynote address at a seminar entitled Suicide and the Search for Meaning: Answers from Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy held at the European Parliament Buildings in Dublin on November 17, 2012.

Dr. Costello, founder and director of the Viktor Frankl Institute of Ireland, is a philosopher, logotherapist/existential analyst, and author. He has been lecturing philosophy and psychology for over twenty years in University College Dublin, Trinity, and, more recently, in the Dublin Business School.

He was educated in St. Gerard's School, Castleknock College, and University College Dublin, where he read Philosophy and Spanish Language and Literature. His Master's degree in philosophy was in existentialism and his PhD degree was on psychoanalysis and hermeneutics.  Subsequently, he trained at the Irish Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, gaining a Diploma in Psychoanalytic Studies with a thesis on Lacan and criminology.

Dr. Costello is a Diplomate in Logotherapy and sits on the international faculty of the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy.  He is a board member of the International Association of Institutions for Training and Research in Logotherapy and Existential Analysis. He has published widely in the International Forum for Logotherapy. Dr. Costello also acts as coadjutor of the London Chapter of the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy.

He is the author of multiple books on psychoanalysis, logotherapy, and philosophy, including the forthcoming Philosophy and the Flow of Presence: Desire, Drama and the Divine Ground of Being.
Links from this month's podcast:

Logotherapy and Existential Analysis:  The Theory and Therapy of Viktor Frankl at the Zur Institute.

Upcoming Conferences on Logotherapy and Existential Analysis:

First World Congress for Existential Psychotherapy in London, May 14-17, 2015.

In 2013:
If you are a presenter at the 19th World Congress and would like to have your lecture recorded for LogoTalk Radio, please contact me to make arrangements.  If you are not a presenter, but have a logotherapy initiative that you think would make a good topic for a LogoTalk interview, and you plan to attend the World Congress, contact me to make arrangements for a live interview. Finally, if you are a presenter at one of the congresses I am not attending, you can still make a recording for use on the show.
Thank you for listening. Please email any questions or comments to logotalk@gmail.com and may you have a meaningful day.
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Thursday, April 4, 2013

#52: The Song of Melancholy: Depression and the Search for Meaning by Stephen J. Costello, PhD



Dr. Stephen J. Costello has given his kind permission for LogoTalk Radio to present his lecture entitled The Song of Melancholy:  Depression and the Search for Meaning.  This lecture was delivered to St. Patrick’s University Hospital in Dublin on March 13, 2013.

Dr. Costello, founder and director of the Viktor Frankl Institute of Ireland, is a philosopher, logotherapist/existential analyst, and author. He has been lecturing philosophy and psychology for over twenty years in University College Dublin, Trinity and, more recently, in the Dublin Business School.

He was educated in St. Gerard's School, Castleknock College, and University College Dublin, where he read Philosophy and Spanish Language and Literature. His Master's degree in philosophy was in existentialism and his PhD degree was on psychoanalysis and hermeneutics.  Subsequently, he trained at the Irish Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, gaining a Diploma in Psychoanalytic Studies with a thesis on Lacan and criminology.

Dr. Costello is a Diplomate in Logotherapy and sits on the international faculty of the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy.  He is a board member of the International Association of Institutions for Training and Research in Logotherapy and Existential Analysis. He has published widely in the International Forum for Logotherapy. Dr. Costello also acts as coadjutor of the London Chapter of the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy.

He is the author of multiple books on psychoanalysis, logotherapy, and philosophy, including the forthcoming Philosophy and the Flow of Presence: Desire, Drama and the Divine Ground of Being.
Links from this month's podcast:

Lewis, M.H., "LogoTalk Radio."  The International Forum for Logotherapy, Vol. 35.  Abilene, Texas: Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy, 2012, pp. 98-101.

"Logotherapy and Existential Analysis:  The Theory and Therapy of Viktor Frankl" at the Zur Institute.

Upcoming Conferences on Logotherapy and Existential Analysis:


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Thursday, March 7, 2013

#51 The Dr. Jerry Long Lecture Series Part 4





Today’s podcast concludes our special presentation of the Dr. Jerry Long Lecture Series unless more material should become available.  This final lecture was recorded at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, USA in 1993.  This is the same lecture that we presented in January 2012 as LogoTalk Radio #37 The Dr. Jerry Long Lecture Series Part 1.

The lecture that follows is different from the earlier presentation in two ways.  First, the lecture that follows is the complete audio archive.  In the earlier presentation, the question and answer period that follows the lecture was removed.  My intention at that time was to present the question and answer portion as a separate episode.  However, in the interest of presenting this material as an historical archive, the current podcast presents the full audio.

Second, the audio has been remastered.  The original audio for each of the lectures was taken from aging VHS tapes that were saved last year in digital format by Steve and Renee Feagans. They have made this material available to LogoTalk Radio for public presentation and, also, to help clean up the aging audio.  After some delay due to the press of events for Congress Vienna 2012:  The Future of Logotherapy, we have now been able to take further action to preserve these archives.  With the help of Tatjana Vucinic, M. Sc. and Giuliano Marinkovic of Croatian Television, we believe we have made the audio as understandable as possible.  Parts 2 and 3 of the Dr. Jerry Long Lecture Series have already been presented with the improved audio, making this lecture the final one to be remastered.

The new audio tracks have also been added to digitized video for each of the lectures and the demonstration of logotherapy.  The full audio and video archives are available at youtube.com/logotalk.

With the kind permission of Mrs. Renee Feagans, we now present Dr. Jerry Long.

Thank you for listening. Please email any questions or comments to logotalk@gmail.com and may you have a meaningful day.
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Thursday, February 7, 2013

#50 The Dr. Jerry Long Lecture Series Part 3




Today’s episode marks the 50th episode of LogoTalk Radio!  This makes it something of our Golden Anniversary!  It is, therefore, quite appropriate that we celebrate with a very special episode.

Today we present Part 3 of the Dr. Jerry Long Lecture Series which is nothing less than a demonstration of logotherapy itself.  Dr. Long and a volunteer presented this demonstration at the Seventh World Congress on Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy held in Kansas City, MO in 1989.

For some historical context, at that time in history Dr. Bianca Hirsch was President of the Institute of Logotherapy.  It was during her tenure that the Institute obtained official consent from Viktor Frankl to use his name as part of the Institute’s name. So it was  at the Seventh World Congress on Logotherapy that the Institute officially became the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy.

Also during this time, Dr. Frankl credited James Crumbaugh, PhD, and Crumbaugh’s professional colleague, Rosemary Henrion, MSN, with bringing Frankl’s work into the scientific arena in the United States. Rosemary Henrion became  Chairperson of the Institute’s Education and Credentialing Committee. Dr. Crumbaugh of Gulfport, Mississippi, James Yoder, PhD, of Kansas City, Kansas, and Mignon Eisenberg, PhD, of Chicago, Illinois, became Regional Directors for the Institute. Subsequently establishing residence in Haifa, Israel, Dr. Eisenberg was instrumental in establishing the Israeli Institute of Logotherapy.

With the kind permission of Mrs. Renee Feagans, we now present Dr. Jerry Long at the Seventh World Congress demonstrating logotherapy.

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Saturday, January 12, 2013

#49 Interview with Professor Ann V. Graber, Ph.D., D.D., Diplomate in Logotherapy


Ann V. Graber is Fellow, Professor of Pastoral Logotherapy, and Director of the Graduate Center for Pastoral Logotherapy at the Graduate Theological Foundation. This educational initiative is the first of its kind by a graduate-level institution focused specifically upon the pastoral character of the theory and practice of Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy being offered to ministry professionals.

Growing up in Europe, Ann Graber received most of her primary, secondary, and initial post-secondary education in Austria. Later she continued her higher education in the U.S. Upon earning the Diplomate in Logotherapy credential, she joined the international faculty of the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy and participated in developing a comprehensive curriculum in Franklian Psychology/Logotherapy in the English language.  She also initiated and directed the Institute’s Distance Learning Program that has attracted students interested in logotherapy from every continent. A life-time member of the Viktor Frankl Institute, Dr. Graber serves as liaison between the Institute and the Foundation.

In 2002, after completing her Ph.D. studies at the Graduate Theological Foundation, Dr. Graber was invited to join the Foundation faculty. She has taught Foundation Seminars and Institutes on Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy on-site, as well as E-tutorials, telephone tutorials, and residential tutorials. A frequent presenter at regional and international conferences, Dr. Graber has received numerous awards through the years. Her articles have been published in Foundation Theology: Faculty Essays for Ministry Professionals, The International Forum for Logotherapy, A Chrysalis Reader, and other publications. Some of her work has been translated (whole or in part) into foreign languages. In 2009, the Graduate Theological Foundation awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity honoris causa to Ann V. Graber in recognition of distinguished service and internationally recognized scholarship in Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy. When the Foundation decided to establish the Graduate Center for Pastoral Logotherapy in 2012, Dr. Graber was honored to be asked to serve as its Director.

Ann V. Graber is the author of Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy: Method of Choice in Ecumenical Pastoral Psychology and The Journey Home: Preparing for Life's Ultimate Adventure.  The Journey Home is now available as an audio CD.  In this important interview, Ann focuses on her second book wherein she discusses her near-death experience.  To listen free to Chapter 1 "Adventure Inward" from the audio book, go to: http://midnightsunburstmusic.com/msbm/JourneyHome.html

Dr. Graber and the Graduate Theological Foundation have announced a new course taught by Professor Graber:  Near Death Experiences and their Life-Transforming Impact.  The primary objective of the course is to help lessen the fear of death and dying.  It will be offered as either a telephone- or an electronic-tutorial.

The full text of the announcement read in the interview can be found here:  Announcing the Graduate Center for Pastoral Logotherapy.

The other books mentioned during the interview are:

On Life after Death by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (a book in which she cites Frankl).

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife by Dr. Eben Alexander.

LogoTalk Radio is honored to welcome Dr. Ann Graber as today’s guest.

Links from News and Announcements this month:

Graduate Center for Pastoral Logotherapy

Logotherapy and Existential Analysis:  An Introduction to the Theory and Therapy of Viktor Frankl, an online continuing education course offered by the Zur Institute.

Overview of Logotherapy, an online continuing education course offered by Defiant Power Solutions.

Logotherapy and Existential Analysis I offered by A. Batthyany in Istanbul, Turkey beginning February, 2014..

Nineteenth World Congress on Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy:  "Inspiring Meaning-Centered Living in Diverse Disciplines, Cultures and Wisdom Traditions," Dallas, Texas, June 19-23, 2013.
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Friday, December 7, 2012

#48 The Dr. Jerry Long Lecture Series Part 2



Dr. Jerry Long is an iconic name in the history of logotherapy.  Following an accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down and ended his promising baseball career, Jerry Long discovered Viktor Frankl and the book Man's Search for Meaning.  He wrote a letter to Viktor Frankl and the two soon became good friends.  Jerry Long became a psychologist and logotherapist and often traveled and lectured with Viktor Frankl to audiences around the world.

Jerry Long passed away in 2002.

With the kind permission of his widow, Mrs. Renee Feagans, video archives of Dr. Jerry Long have now been made available to LogoTalk Radio.  This material has not been presented for more than 20 years.

The second lecture in the series is recorded at Lamar University in Orange, Texas, in 1993.  

Thank you for listening. Please email any questions or comments to logotalk@gmail.com and may you have a meaningful day.
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