#51 The Dr. Jerry Long Lecture Series Part 4

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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.

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#50 The Dr. Jerry Long Lecture Series Part 3

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Demonstration of Logotherapy

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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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#48 The Dr. Jerry Long Lecture Series Part 2

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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.  

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#47 Interview with Mr. Robert "the Turtleman" Ekstrom

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Our guest today on LogoTalk Radio is Mr. Robert Ekstrom, a long time participant in the World Congresses hosted by the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy.  Many will know him simply as "the Turtleman" because of his habit of brightening people’s days by giving them a small, carved, stone turtle.  I met Mr. Ekstrom about four years ago and, sure enough, he gave me a little green turtle.  I think I was lucky to get a green one.  It has sat on my desk since reminding me of the World Congress.

This is truly one of LogoTalk Radio's most charming and fun interviews.  Mr. Ekstrom's spirit of love for people shines through.  He is sure to touch your life in this interview.

Thanks to logotherapist Manfred Hillmann for sharing the video of Mr. Ekstrom that is mentioned in the interview:

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The book mentioned in the interview is Search for Significance;  Finding Meaning in Times of Change, Challenge and Chaos by Geri Marr Burdman, Ph.D.  It is available here at Amazon.com.

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Links from the news and announcements this month:

THE MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

The two semester course at the newly installed Department for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis of the Institute of Psychoanalysis in Moscow starts on November 22 with a four-day seminar held by A. Batthyany.

Logos & Existência: Revista da Associação Brasileira de Logoterapia e Análise Existencial


A Revista Brasileira de Logoterapia e Análise Existencial, com periodicidade semestral, é um periódico online, vinculado a Associação Brasileira de Logoterapia e Análise Existencial (ABLAE). Seu objetivo é divulgar artigos científicos originais (teóricos e empíricos) dos pesquisadores e estudiosos do sentido da vida, bem como difundir o pensamento de Viktor Frankl em suas possíveis aplicações em diversos contextos (filosófico, clínico, educacional, laboral, social etc.). Além dos artigos, a revista também publica resenhas de livros e entrevistas com personalidades de destaque na Logoterapia no Brasil e no mundo.

In San Severo, Italy on November 16, 2012:

Viktor Frankl Institute of Ireland

School of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis

SUICIDE AND THE SEARCH FOR MEANING: Answers from Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy

Date: Saturday, 10am-12pm, November 17th, 2012.
Location: European Parliament Buildings, 43 Molesworth St., Dublin 2.
Enquiries and booking to Gráinne: grainne.delaney@europarl.europa.eu

I CONGRESO PERUANO DE LOGOTERAPIA Y TANATOLOGIA

11 y 12 de enero 2013 - Lima, Perú

THE VIKTOR FRANKL INSTITUTE OF LOGOTHERAPY

The 19th World Congress on Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy
June 19-23, 2013
Pre-Congress Workshops June 17-19, 2013
Marriott Quorum Hotel
Dallas, Texas, USA

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#37 The Dr. Jerry Long Lecture Series Part 1

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This podcast begins an exciting new project for 2012:

The Dr. Jerry Long Lecture Series

The first lecture in the series is recorded at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, USA in 1993.

Jerry Long is an iconic name in the history of logotherapy.  Following an accident that left him paralyzed and ended his promising sports 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, audio and video archives of Dr. Jerry Long have now been made available to LogoTalk Radio and will be presented throughout the year. This material has not been presented to an international audience for more than 10 years.

Mrs. Feagans was our guest on LogoTalk Radio #35.

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

#35 Interview with Mrs. Renee Feagans

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During this year’s World Congress, I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Renee Feagans and her husband.  I learned that she listens to LogoTalk Radio before the World Congresses to get herself in the mood for the conferences.  Mrs. Feagans has been a guest at many of the World Congresses and has an involvement in logotherapy dating back several years.  

Now happily remarried, Mrs. Feagans was previously married to Dr. Jerry Long, an iconic name in the history of logotherapy who passed away in 2002.

While recovering from an accident that left him paralyzed from the chest down, Dr. Long wrote a letter to Viktor Frankl.  They soon became friends and, eventually, colleagues.  Dr. Long often appeared with Dr. Frankl at events around the world.  Dr. Frankl frequently spoke of Jerry Long's life as "a living testimony to logotherapy lived and the defiant power of the human spirit."

LogoTalk Radio is pleased to have Mrs. Feagans as our guest on today’s show.


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