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A healthy person, as being addressed in the current study, is always looking for a goal that makes his life meaningful. Viktor Frankl's theory of logotherapy, which is known as one of most pivotal theories of perfection psychology, gives meaning to a healthy human life in the light of the characteristics as “free will” and "awareness", "sense of responsibility", "meaning-oriented will", "love", "wise tolerance of suffering", "search for meaning", "responsibility to conscience", and "believing religion". The currect study aims at examining the aspects of a healthy personality in the two main characters of Savashun in Daneshvar's novel based on Viktor Frankl's theory. The current research implies a descriptive-analytical methodology and a library information procedure is devised so as to collect the required information. In the addressed novel (Savashun), the character traits of Zari and Yousef as the main characters have been analyzed from Frankel's point of view. As the results have indicated, Yousef carries most of the characteristics of Frankel's healthy personality and, at the end of the story, Zari gradually turns into a healthy personality after the events that happen to her. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationship between leisure and meaning lacks a clear, welldeveloped, philosophical underpinning. To address the situation, this article reports the results of a qualitative investigation aimed at formulating and articulating such a foundation. Hermeneutics, the investigation's guiding methodology, involved the researcher reading multiple works authored by two prominent philosophers who studied meaning, Viktor Frankl and Martin Heidegger, as well as two works authored by Josef Pieper, a philosopher who extensively studied meaning and leisure. Based on his interpretation of the texts, the present author generated a philosophically based foundation conveying the importance of finding meanings, outlining how meanings come about, and describing contemplative leisure's role in discovering meanings. The article concludes with two practical applications aimed at helping recreation practitioners support people's pursuit of meaningful lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is robust evidence to support the relationship between spirituality and mental health, but the mechanisms of this association are not well-understood. The existential meaning provided by spirituality may be one of these mechanisms. This was the central theme of Viktor Frankl's psychology, which he explained using the notion of the spiritual unconscious. Thus, we sought to explain how Frankl understands this spiritual unconscious and the two pieces of evidence he presents for its existence: the phenomenological description of responsible action and the analysis of dreams. Lastly, we discuss his contribution to the current understanding of the relationship between having an overarching purpose and/or religious meaning and improvement in mental health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este artigo tem como objetivo comparar os perfis de liderança elencados na obra Em busca de sentido, de Viktor Frankl, com os seis modelos de comportamento de líderes pesquisados e descritos por Daniel Goleman em seus livros. Conhecer os diferentes modos de lidar com as pessoas e reconhecer suas características positivas e negativas é essencial para o desenvolvimento de um líder. Através da análise da vida de Frankl, o criador da logoterapia, podemos observar que ele foi um pensador com uma grande inteligência emocional. Mesmo após perder sua família nas mãos dos nazistas, ele não se deixou abalar e continuou lutando por seus ideais. Acredita-se que, no contexto atual, esta pesquisa ajudará as pessoas a refletirem sobre a maneira como se relacionam com os outros

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, born in 1938, is Africa's first elected female head of state. She navigated stressful and traumatic events, including bullying, domestic abuse, persecution, a civil war, witnessing the effects of genocide and navigating a patriarchal system. Nonetheless, Johnson-Sirleaf's determination established her as a global icon who played a significant role in women’s empowerment. Johnson-Sirleaf was purposively selected for this study as she is an extraordinary female political leader. Frankl’s dimensional ontology is employed to describe and explore the life of Johnson-Sirleaf from a psychobiographical perspective using publicly available information. The study focused on the period between 1938 and 2005. The findings suggest that Johnson-Sirleaf transcended psychophysical and psychosocial limitations and crafted a meaningful life. It seems Johnson-Sirleaf was guided by a sense of purpose and used her will to meaning to overcome psychosocial injustices and psychophysical issues. This study illustrates the value of Frankl’s existential theory in illuminating the life histories of extraordinary political leaders and its potential contribution to contemporary mental health challenges.

The serious leisure perspective (SLP) aligns with humanistic counseling principles. A most significant professional implication is that humanistic counselors can create optimal leisure lifestyle strategies linked to the AHC principles of discovering meaning and purpose, developing deep connections with people and nature, moving toward growth and change, maintaining a holistic approach to humanity, and developing creativity. Future research implications and practical steps that humanistic counselors can use in professional practice to connect the SLP to humanistic counseling principles are elucidated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The experience of COVID-19 pandemic had been severely stressful for many of us. As the pandemic affected the whole world, many intellectuals described these experiences as stressful as during wartime. Human suffering and uncertainty about recovery or falling victim had been quite similar in both situations. Logotherapy developed by Dr. Viktor Frankl during World War II (WW-II) has the underpinning to search for meaning in such experiences that motivate the person to remain socially connected and look for better prospects in future. The therapy has the bases in the cognitive psychology, spirituality, and philosophy which are quite different from the modern-day practice of psychodynamic and cognitive therapies. The authors reviewed Viktor Frankl's book "Man's search of meaning" in the context of COVID-19 pandemic, and found marked similarities between the human suffering of the current situation and what Frankl has described in his book. In this narrative review, the authors have attempted to compare the situation during WW-II and current pandemic and have commented about the usefulness of practice of logotherapy in the current situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, born in 1938, is Africa's first elected female head of state. She navigated stressful and traumatic events, including bullying, domestic abuse, persecution, a civil war, witnessing the effects of genocide and navigating a patriarchal system. Nonetheless, Johnson-Sirleaf's determination established her as a global icon who played a significant role in women's empowerment. Johnson-Sirleaf was purposively selected for this study as she is an extraordinary female political leader. Frankl's dimensional ontology is employed to describe and explore the life of Johnson-Sirleaf from a psychobiographical perspective using publicly available information. The study focused on the period between 1938 and 2005. The findings suggest that Johnson-Sirleaf transcended psychophysical and psychosocial limitations and crafted a meaningful life. It seems Johnson-Sirleaf was guided by a sense of purpose and used her will to meaning to overcome psychosocial injustices and psychophysical issues. This study illustrates the value of Frankl's existential theory in illuminating the life histories of extraordinary political leaders and its potential contribution to contemporary mental health challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper will analyze the concept of the meaning of life in Frank Capra’s film It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) from a logotherapy aspect and with the support of Catholic theory. Namely, the film depicts how George Bailey, faced with a major life difficulty, self-transcends himself and discovers meaning through work and deeds, love, and the attitude toward unavoidable suffering. The notions of the responsibility of every human being to their life and God, the uniqueness of every individual and the specific tasks life sets before them, and the acceptance of one’s own position will also be examined with regard to Bailey’s actualization of the meaning of life. The paper will conclude by identifying the effect this film has on its viewers due to the way it tackles the topic of the meaning of life, which makes it suitable for a therapeutic method cinematherapy, used in logotherapy.

The experience of COVID-19 pandemic had been severely stressful for many of us. As the pandemic affected the whole world, many intellectuals described these experiences as stressful as during wartime. Human suffering and uncertainty about recovery or falling victim had been quite similar in both situations. Logotherapy developed by Dr. Viktor Frankl during World War II (WW-II) has the underpinning to search for meaning in such experiences that motivate the person to remain socially connected and look for better prospects in future. The therapy has the bases in the cognitive psychology, spirituality, and philosophy which are quite different from the modern-day practice of psychodynamic and cognitive therapies. The authors reviewed Viktor Frankl's book “Man's search of meaning” in the context of COVID-19 pandemic, and found marked similarities between the human suffering of the current situation and what Frankl has described in his book. In this narrative review, the authors have attempted to compare the situation during WW-II and current pandemic and have commented about the usefulness of practice of logotherapy in the current situation.

This paper will analyze the concept of the meaning of life in Frank Capra's film It's a Wonderful Life (1946) from a logotherapy aspect and with the support of Catholic theory. Namely, the film depicts how George Bailey, faced with a major life difficulty, self-transcends himself and discovers meaning through work and deeds, love, and the attitude toward unavoidable suffering. The notions of the responsibility of every human being to their life and God, the uniqueness of every individual and the specific tasks life sets before them, and the acceptance of one's own position will also be examined with regard to Bailey's actualization of the meaning of life. The paper will conclude by identifying the effect this film has on its viewers due to the way it tackles the topic of the meaning of life, which makes it suitable for a therapeutic method cinematherapy, used in logotherapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For example, while the search for meaning was found to be negatively related to the presence of meaning among U.S. participants, it was positively related to the presence of meaning among Japanese individuals (Steger et al., [25]) and Israelis (e.g., Abu-Raiya et al., [1]; Russo-Netzer, [19]). The new meaning of meaning To understand the new meaning that emerged at this conference, it is important to understand the philosophy behind the conference and the organization itself. Meaning is essential to human health, well-being, and valued living, in general and related to disaster mental health (Finkelstein-Fox et al., [12]; Melton & Schulenberg, [17]; Pavlacic et al., [18]; Schulenberg, [20], [21]; Schulenberg et al., [22]; Weathers et al., [20]). Keywords: Meaning; existentialism; Viktor Frankl; sociology; social justice EN Meaning existentialism Viktor Frankl sociology social justice 129 137 9 04/03/23 20230401 NES 230401 Meaning in crisis The world is in crisis!. [Extracted from the article]

This paper focuses on an unusual kind of writing that revisits the traumatic experience of the Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944). The main heroine of this article has never been studied in this context: Tamara Gabbe (1903–1960) was a children's playwright, but in her narrow circle of friends (which included Anna Akhmatova) she was acknowledged as a moral authority. Gabbe's private letters written after her evacuation from Leningrad repeatedly highlight the impossibility of speaking about everyday life, and her children's plays enact a happy resolution to the real-life troubles experienced by Gabbe and many others during and after the Great Terror, the Siege, and the Second World War—troubles that could not be described in the Soviet press overtly. This paper analyzes ethical and psychological ideas implicit in Gabbe's works of 1942–1946; I propose that these ideas show some surprising parallels to the "logotherapy" developed by the Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher Viktor Frankl, and to the methods of existential psychotherapy as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the author discusses the phenomenon of higher education, as it could be seen in the 21st century, when the tendency to focus on the constant people's consumption of products of material and spiritual culture has become very bright. An important question is whether education is now perceived as a tool for a person to know the world and oneself, to reveal his/her creative abilities and spiritual horizons? Or has it turned into one of the utilitarian components of the service sector, having lost its humanistic purpose? Being a teacher of Philosophy at the university, the author reflects on the trends in education and its role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper describes a logotherapy meaning-centered therapeutic recreation model based on Viktor Frankl's will to meaning theory and his centrifugal and centripetal leisure dichotomy. This manuscript introduces a therapeutic recreation meaning-centered intervention grounded in existentialism and logotherapy, with its focus on human suffering-meaning potentials and self-transcendence. Therapeutic recreation application begins with an assessment focused on understanding the client's values and meaning potentials then links leisure as a way to discover or experience meaning. Primary intervention strategies are search for meaning and Socratic and maieutic dialog linked to leisure interest finders to help clients experience centripetal leisure. The paper presents an intervention applying these strategies. A concluding section offers recommendations for education and research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Viktor E. Frankl – psychiatra, neurolog, filozof – analizując sytuację współczesnego człowieka, zauważa, że ​​w dużej mierze utracił on kontakt ze sferą duchową, z tym, co w nim najbardziej ludzkie. Stan ten potęguje panująca sytuacja w nauce, która stawia prymat redukcjonizmów, ujmujących człowieka jednostronnie. Według Frankla człowiek nie jest homo sapiens, zoon politikon czy homo faber, ale raczej homo patiens, bo ta umiejętność cierpienia odróżnia go od świata przyrody. Cierpienie oznacza przyjęcie określonej postawy wobec tego, co trudne i nieuniknione. Przyjmując właściwą postawę wobec nieuchronnego cierpienia, czyniąc je sensownym, człowiek realizuje swoją egzystencję i przyczynia się do rozwoju innych ludzi.

In the original English version of I and Thou (1937) and in a postscript to the second English edition (1958), Martin Buber assured his readers that an I–Thou relationship is possible between a person and a tree. Considering the importance of dialogue in that form of relationship, commentators have often looked for ways to bypass the tree’s inability to speak in reconceptualising the I–Thou relationship. This article looks instead at the importance of the person’s ability to hear what trees may be telling us as a way of understanding Buber’s point. A story found in Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) is used as an illustration.

The paper describes the experiences of Nicolae Steinhardt and Viktor Frankl, both imprisoned despite their innocence, and their discovery of happiness and meaning through suffering and pain. Nicolae Steinhardt was a Romanian political prisoner of the communist regime and Viktor Frankl was a Jew imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp. While in prison, Nicolae Steinhardt is secretly baptized and his life takes a very interesting turn. The discovery of God gives him access to the phenomenon of happiness and as he confesses, in prison he will live the happiest days of his life. Despite the miserable conditions, the pain, and the physical and mental torment, Steinhardt characterizes his happiness as ecstatic, passionate and life-changing. Under similar conditions, Viktor Frankl discovers the importance of suffering in determining the meaning of life. For Frankl, life always holds a potential meaning and "if there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering". Therefore, through suffering and sorrow, and not in spite of them, Steinhardt and Frankl gain access to happiness and meaning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Life-threatening illness such as cancer may lead to existential distress, fears about dying, and questioning our legacy and impact on those around us. Building on the foundation of meaning-focused interventions in cancer care and the significance of the therapeutic alliance, the paradigm of vicarious resilience can inform oncology social work, serving as a means of growth, resilience, and self-care for clinicians. Vicarious resilience is the strength clinicians may experience through clients' resilience in facing adversity, and the meaning that practitioners can gain from supporting individuals through traumatic situations, namely life-threatening illness. Social workers in the field of oncology are at risk for vicarious traumatization and compassion fatigue, as they walk alongside clients through suffering and loss, while also positioned to experience vicarious resilience and meaning through the resilience displayed by clients. This paper will examine the potential benefits of vicarious resilience in the field, and through enhancing psychoeducation and incorporating it into training and supervision, it can be brought to the fore as a paradigm in cancer care, offering a means to support practitioners. A case study involving a composite client navigating her cancer journey will be shared, illustrating the companionship and vicarious resilience through the oncology social work relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Logotherapy" or semantic therapy is taken from the Greek word "logos". "Logos" refers to "soul" and "meaning" and it's combined with life and its meanings. Viktor Frankl, the founder of the semantic therapy method, believes that the meaning of life is to discover, not to create. According to his opinion, the final concerns of mankind can be solved to some extent by expanding his perspective on life and the universe and heal the spiritual wounds caused by existential problems. Nadem Qaisari as a poet and a philosopher whose life in the turbulent environment of Afghanistan has imposed many sufferings upon him, in his sonnets, he has presented a valuable approach to the methods of giving meaning to sufferings, getting rid of mental ambiguities and healing spiritual wounds caused by existential problems, which from the perspective of the semantic therapy school is important. This research, which was provided by the method of analyzing the content of Nadem's sonnets based on Frankel's semantic therapy, has answered the question that the attention to the meaning and conceptual symmetry of Frankel's theory can be traced in Nadem's sonnets and thought? The result shows that acceptance of fate, finding meaning in suffering, self-transcendence, religious orientation and meaning therapy with love are the best solutions to deal with mental ambiguities, psychological problems and a better understanding of the beauties of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The existential psychiatrist Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) lived an extraordinary life. He witnessed and experienced acts of anti-Semitism, persecution, brutality, physical abuse, malnutrition, and emotional humiliation. Ironically, through these experiences, the loss of dignity and the loss of the lives of his wife, parents and brother, his philosophy of human nature, namely, that the search for meaning is the drive behind human behaviour, was moulded. Frankl formulated the basis of his existential approach to psychological practice before World War II (WWII). However, his experiences in the concentration camps confirmed his view that it is through a search for meaning and purpose in life that individuals can endure hardship and suffering. In a sense, Frank’s theory was tested in a dramatic way by the tragedies of his life. Following WWII, Frankl shaped modern psychological thinking by lecturing at more than 200 universities, authoring 40 books published in 50 languages and receiving 29 honorary doctorates. His ideas and experiences related to the search for meaning influenced theorists, practitioners, researchers, and lay people around the world. This study focuses specifically on the period between 1942 and 1945. The aim is to explore Frankl’s search for meaning within an unpredictable, life-threatening, and chaotic context through the lens of his concept of noö-dynamics.

This article aims to uncover the meaning of life and death across the lifespan of the extraordinary person, Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997). Frankl was purposively sampled due to his international acclaim as an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, who later became famous as a holocaust survivor and the founder of logotherapy. Through his approach of “healing through meaning,” he became the founder of the meaning-centred school of psychotherapy and published many books on existential and humanistic psychology. The study describes the meaning of life and death through two theoretical approaches: the archetypal analysis based on C.G. Jung’s and C.S. Pearson’s work and a terror management approach based on the melancholic existentialist work of Ernest Becker. The methodology of psychobiography is used to conduct the psycho-historical analysis of the interplay of archetypes and death annihilation anxiety throughout Frankl’s lifespan. The article evaluates how archetypes and death anxiety interacts and how they built meaning in different stages of Frankl’s lifespan. The theories are discussed and illustrated in the light of Viktor E. Frankl’s life.

Autori rada transkribirali su i preveli Franklov govor o kolektivnoj krivnji (Beč, 1988.) s njemačkoga na hrvatski jezik i to je prvi hrvatski prijevod toga Franklova govora. U radu se navedeni govor detaljno jezično i sadržajno analizira, pri čemu ga se uspoređuje s tiskanom inačicom te se Franklovi stavovi i izričaj suprotstavljaju stavovima K. Jaspersa, H. Arendt i C. G. Junga. Pritom autori analiziraju filozofska uporišta Franklove logoterapije i egzistencijalne analize te njegova promišljanja o patologiji duha vremena, napose o kolektivizmu. Sagledavanje društvenoga, političkoga, povijesnoga i filozofskoga konteksta neophodno je za razumijevanje aktualnosti Franklove misli, odnosno relevantnosti rasprave o (ne)postojanju kolektivne krivnje.

Toni Morrison is one of the African American writers who reflect the difficult situation of black Americans during the era of slavery and even after abolition. She focuses more on the black woman as she is dehumanized and oppressed by the white men, the white women and even by the black men. In her novel ‘Beloved’, Morrison draws beautiful though painful images of heroism, bravery and resistance that black women demonstrate in front of segregation and prejudice. It is Sethe’s story, a mother who kills her baby in order to protect her from having a miserable future, being a slave. In the light of Viktor Frankl’s ‘Tragic Triad’, the current paper explains the relation between the three poles of the triad ‘Death, Pain, Guilt’ and the way they meet at Sethe’s hiatus. Sethe’s reaction is to fly away mentally where she sticks to one single scene where death, pain and guilt intersect. The paper aims at clarifying the link between the triad pillars and Sethe’s decision to be cowered within her past murder. It also aims at clarifying how she strives to find meaning within her trauma despite the feelings of pain and guilt so that she can remain alive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Existential therapy and Jungian analysis share much in common. The early Jung, with his self-professed scientific study and "empirical" description of the human psyche focused strictly on "observed facts," fancied himself a phenomenologist of sorts, loosely using a philosophical method first described in detail by Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) at the start of the 20th century. In this article, the author, a clinical and forensic psychologist, compares the contemporary practices of existential therapy and Jungian analysis, citing essential similarities and differences, and proposing and describing the complementary synthesis of these two penetrating and potent theoretical orientations in a reimagined form of therapy he calls "existential depth psychology." He argues here that contemporary existential therapy's reflexively broad dismissal of depth psychology and its profound clinical wisdom diminishes it immensely. And vice versa. Given the inherent bias against such sagacious, depth-oriented counseling and psychotherapy in today's increasingly vapid mental health marketplace, Jungian analysis and existential therapy, despite, or really due to, their differences, desperately need each other to become more balanced, whole, efficacious, relevant, and viable humanistic treatment approaches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The existential psychiatrist Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) lived an extraordinary life. He witnessed and experienced acts of anti-Semitism, persecution, brutality, physical abuse, malnutrition, and emotional humiliation. Ironically, through these experiences, the loss of dignity and the loss of the lives of his wife, parents and brother, his philosophy of human nature, namely, that the search for meaning is the drive behind human behaviour, was moulded. Frankl formulated the basis of his existential approach to psychological practice before World War II (WWII). However, his experiences in the concentration camps confirmed his view that it is through a search for meaning and purpose in life that individuals can endure hardship and suffering. In a sense, Frank's theory was tested in a dramatic way by the tragedies of his life. Following WWII, Frankl shaped modern psychological thinking by lecturing at more than 200 universities, authoring 40 books published in 50 languages and receiving 29 honorary doctorates. His ideas and experiences related to the search for meaning influenced theorists, practitioners, researchers, and lay people around the world. This study focuses specifically on the period between 1942 and 1945. The aim is to explore Frankl's search for meaning within an unpredictable, life-threatening, and chaotic context through the lens of his concept of noö-dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to uncover the meaning of life and death across the lifespan of the extraordinary person, Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997). Frankl was purposively sampled due to his international acclaim as an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, who later became famous as a holocaust survivor and the founder of logotherapy. Through his approach of "healing through meaning," he became the founder of the meaning-centred school of psychotherapy and published many books on existential and humanistic psychology. The study describes the meaning of life and death through two theoretical approaches: the archetypal analysis based on C.G. Jung's and C.S. Pearson's work and a terror management approach based on the melancholic existentialist work of Ernest Becker. The methodology of psychobiography is used to conduct the psycho-historical analysis of the interplay of archetypes and death annihilation anxiety throughout Frankl's lifespan. The article evaluates how archetypes and death anxiety interacts and how they built meaning in different stages of Frankl's lifespan. The theories are discussed and illustrated in the light of Viktor E. Frankl's life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

O objetivo do presente artigo foi identificar as influências do judaísmo, sobretudo da mística judaica, na vida e na obra de Viktor Emil Frankl. Para tanto, realizou-se uma revisão da literatura buscando as referências judaicas nas obras de Viktor Frankl. Dentre as aproximações encontradas, destacam-se o ‘ídiche kop’, que se correlaciona com a perspectiva frankliana de sentido oculto; e a sua concepção de Suprassentido, que se aproxima da mística cabalística no que se refere ao entendimento do ser inacessível. Constatou-se que Frankl utiliza a sua cultura judaica para expressar os conceitos teóricos da logoterapia e aprofundar temas do seu existencialismo.

Theology is a multidisciplinary field dealing not only with the relations between God and man but also among humankind. Therefore, the task of Theology is to deal with the contemporary problems of human society. The following articles by Prof. Josef Dolista and Dr. Pavla Damohorska deal with some aspects of the present society deeply influenced by the pandemic situation. While Professor Dolista focuses on the attitude of medical staff towards individuals, Dr. Damohorska’s contribution outlines some basic features of the human character in relation to Jewish ethics as well as the way of how to overcome the negative aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este estudo buscou compreender o sentido que pacientes e/ou familiares atribuem à vida diante da morte anunciada através dos Cuidados Paliativos. Fez-se uma pesquisa documental, utilizando-se o método fenomenológico, analisada sob a ótica da Fenomenologia Existencial e da Teoria do Sentido. Os documentos pesquisados dizem respeito a Relatórios de Acompanhamento Psicológico realizados em um hospital geral da cidade de Belo Horizonte, entre setembro e dezembro de 2015. Ao analisar estes casos à luz dos critérios propostos por Viktor E. Frankl sobre o sentido da vida chegou-se à conclusão que, mesmo com a morte anunciada, pacientes e/ou familiares continuam investindo nos modos de cuidar da vida e é imprescindível que se possa dar vazão à manifestação das existências que vivenciam este processo. Sendo assim, investigar o sentido da existência destes pacientes pode auxiliar o trabalho da equipe rumo à construção da qualidade de vida frente ao processo de morte.