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Saturday, October 12, 2013

#58: Emerging from the Inner Storm – Presentation by Paul McQuillan, Ph.D., Psy.D.






On behalf of LogoTalk Radio, I want to extend my personal thanks to Storm, the pseudonym of the woman whose story you are about to hear, for giving LogoTalk Radio permission to use the following material.  I also want to thank Dr. Paul McQuillan for making this material available.

In the podcast that follows, you will hear Dr. McQuillan’s presentation given to the Nineteenth World Congress on Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy on June 22, 2013 in Dallas, Texas. Dr. McQuillan presents the story of Storm, a woman who has emerged from the trauma of domestic violence with the help of logotherapy. The story is told with Storm’s own voice, through slides and recordings. The slide deck with the attendant audio can be viewed at youtube.com/LogoTalk.

Dr Paul McQuillan is a Faculty Member of the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy and a practicing family and relationships counselor with Anglicare South Queensland.  He has been an Honorary Fellow of Australian Catholic University since 2002. Through Life Change Therapies he provides face the face and online courses in Logotherapy in Australia. (www.lifechange.net.au)

Dr. McQuillan is a member of the International Seminar on Religious Education and Values. The seminar meets bi-annually and is restricted to members and invited guests.  He is Chair of the Education Program Accreditation Committee of the Psychotherapists and Counsellors Federation of Australia. The role of the committee is to accredit training in psychotherapy and counseling provided by Universities and other training organizations. He sits on the Editorial Board of "Panorama: Intercultural Annual of Interdisciplinary Ethical and Religious Studies for Responsible Research" and the Editorial Board of "The Journal of Youth Ministry."

His research interests include religious experience and the spirituality of youth as well as meaning centered therapy and the logotherapy of Viktor Frankl.

His previous career has centered on education and educational leadership.  He has been the principal of high schools in three states, assistant director for resources and planning for Northern Territory Catholic Education, and, for 12 years, Director, Administrative Services, for Brisbane Catholic Education.

Dr. McQuillan is the author of numerous journal articles, book chapters and books on the topic of spirituality and belief systems of young people.


For more information about the work Dr. McQuillan is doing in Australia, and for more information on his coursework, please visit Life Change Therapies.  Dr. McQuillan can be reached at paul@lifechange.net.au.









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

Sunday, September 8, 2013

#57 Interview with Snezhana A. Zamalieva, Ph.D.




Snezhana A. Zamalieva, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, business coach, and President of the Maestro Temirkanov International Foundation for Cultural Initiatives (Международный Фонд Культурных Инициатив Маэстро Темирканова).  She graduated from St. Petersburg State University with a master's degree in sociology in 1996 and received her MBA in 2003.  Later, she graduated from the East European Institute for Psychoanalysis with a master's degree in psychology.  In 2012 she earned her Ph.D. from the Philosophy Department of St. Petersburg State University.  Dr. Zamalieva also completed the program in Franklian Psychology offered by the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy, in Texas, by distance learning.

She is the author of numerous articles and a monograph entitled Человек все решает сам : логотерапия и экзистенциальная антропология Виктора Франкла (Man Decides for Himself: Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy and Existential Anthropology).  This is the first book by a Russian author to summarize the main tenets of logotherapy and to present the life of Viktor Frankl, making it an important historical publication.

Follow this link to find Человек все решает сам : логотерапия и экзистенциальная антропология Виктора Франкла at Amazon.com.

Follow this link to find Человек все решает сам : логотерапия и экзистенциальная антропология Виктора Франкла at East View Information Services.

In this interview, Dr. Zamalieva discusses her interest in logotherapy and existential analysis, her book, and her work with the Maestro Temirkanov Foundation.  To hear the presentation that she made to an international audience at World Congress XIX, please scroll down for LogoTalk Radio #56:  The Russian Philosophical Heritage and its Impact on Franklian Philosophy – Presentation by Snezhana A. Zamalieva, Ph.D.


Annual Review of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis

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

Saturday, August 3, 2013

#56: The Russian Philosophical Heritage and its Impact on Franklian Philosophy – Presentation by Snezhana A. Zamalieva, Ph.D.






Snezhana A. Zamalieva, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, business coach and President of the Maestro Temirkanov International Foundation for Cultural Initiatives (Международный Фонд Культурных Инициатив Маэстро Темирканова).  She graduated from St. Petersburg State University with a master's degree in sociology in 1996 and received her MBA in 2003.  Later, she graduated from the East European Institute for Psychoanalysis with a master's degree in psychology.  In 2012 she earned her Ph.D. from the Philosophy Department of St. Petersburg State University.  Dr. Zamalieva also completed the program in Franklian Psychology offered by the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy, in Texas, by distance learning.

She is the author of numerous articles and a monograph entitled Человек все решает сам : логотерапия и экзистенциальная антропология Виктора Франкла (Man Decides for Himself: Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy and Existential Anthropology).  This is the first book by a Russian author to summarize the main tenets of logotherapy and to present the life of Viktor Frankl, making it an important historical publication.

Follow this link to find Человек все решает сам : логотерапия и экзистенциальная антропология Виктора Франкла at Amazon.com.

Follow this link to find Человек все решает сам : логотерапия и экзистенциальная антропология Виктора Франкла at East View Information Services.

Dr. Zamalieva lectured at the Nineteenth World Congress on Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy in Dallas, Texas on June 21, 2013.  Here, she presents an overview of Russian philosophy for her international audience and then discusses the influence of Russian philosophy, especially Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, on the development of Viktor Frankl's thought.


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

Thursday, July 4, 2013

#55: The Cognitive Neurosciences and Logotherapy: New Experimental Findings and Their Implications – Keynote Address by Professor Alexander Batthyány, Ph.D.






This podcast shares the keynote address delivered by Prof. Dr. Alexander Batthyány at the Nineteenth World Congress on Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy held in Dallas, Texas on June 20, 2013.  This address is, in my opinion, a watershed in the history of logotherapy and existential analysis.  In it, Dr. Batthyány explains Viktor Frankl’s publications in historical context and outlines the contemporary challenge that logotherapy must face.  Its cause is no longer a philosophical issue, but rather an empirical question with testable hypotheses derived from logotherapy.  I believe that all future work in the theory and practice of logotherapy will be judged by how well that work responds to the questions and challenges raised in this lecture.

Dr. Batthyány is President of the Viktor Frankl Institute Vienna and director of the Viktor Frankl Archives.  He is Professor and Academic Director of the Viktor Frankl Chair for Philosophy and Psychology at the University of the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein.  This chair was established by Dr. Viktor Frankl himself and represents the world’s first and only Ph.D. program in logotherapy and logotherapy-related interdisciplinary studies at a fully accredited institution of higher learning.  Dr. Batthyány is also Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vienna, Vienna Medical School.

He is widely published in the areas of the philosophy of science, logotherapy, and consciousness studies with over 50 citations to his credit.  These including five monographs, six edited anthologies, and nine edited volumes.  Forthcoming works include Conscious Selves: An Argument for Brain‐Mind‐Interactionism; To Cope, To Strive, To Understand: Existential Questions in Psychology; and Meaning in Existential and Positive Psychology.  He is Head of the Editorial Board and First Editor of the 14‐Volumes of the Collected Works of Viktor Frankl, of which the first five volumes have been published.  The complete set is expected to be finished around the year 2020.


Links from this month's podcast:

Ph.D. Program in Logotherapy and Logotherapy-related Studies.

Prof. Dr. Alexander Batthyány

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

Sunday, June 9, 2013

#54: Logotherapy and Existential Hermeneutics: Background



Next week at World Congress XIX on Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy: Inspiring Meaning-Centered Living in Diverse Disciplines, Cultures and Wisdom Traditions, I have the privilege of presenting From Turmoil to Transcendence:  The Book of Job and the Will to Wisdom based on my recently completed PhD dissertation on logotherapy and hermeneutics.  During that presentation, I intend to outline what a logotherapy hermeneutic is, and then engage logotherapy in a dialogue with the Biblical Book of Job.  I find the discoveries both about the Book of Job and about logotherapy to be quite startling.  

Spiral bound, paper-only copies of the dissertation will also be available at the World Congress bookstore for $20.00. There are only 15 copies available, so I’ll accept pre-orders by email to logotalk@gmail.com.

In this podcast, I share a bit of background on what a hermeneutic is, and what it has to do with logotherapy.  I also talk about types of hermeneutics, as well as postmodernism, and explore how Frankl’s theory fits with those constructs.  Most of this material will not be part of the presentation next week, and both this episode and the presentation are free-standing, but listening to this episode before the presentation will give those who attend a fuller understanding of the overall project.

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.

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.