From mourning to meaning: contributions of Logotherapy in the psychotherapeutic ambience

Abstract

From the biological point of view, death is something natural. However, while a challenging experience involves the experience of various events which also includes psychological dimensions, social and noetic. This case study presents under a qualitative and experiential approach, the possibility of discovery of meaning in the experience the mourning of a patient. For this was accomplished a psychotherapeutic process oriented by Logotherapy. This feature used, besides to indicate the importance of the appeal to some of the capabilities of a person, conceptualized by Frankl as self-transcendence, creative values ??and attitudinal values??, love and responsibility, was also relevant and effective for the discovery of meaning for the mourning in the change process in psychotherapy recommended.

Keywords: Mourning, Meaning, Psychotherapy, Death, Human being.