Introdução: A Terapia Ocupacional é uma profissão da área saúde cujo foco está no fazer humano, engajamento ocupacional e na participação social. Logoterapia abordagem centrada sentido existência humana cujos pilares são: liberdade de escolha, vontade vida. Objetivo: Refletir sobre a pessoa, o partir visão logoterapêutica discutir sua aplicação prática Ocupacional. Método: Trata-se um ensaio te...

Those of us engaged in clinical research and the compassionate clinical care of patients with life-threatening illnesses often find ourselves confronted with basic questions of the nature of human existence, and in particular how one creates and lives a mortal human life. We are human beings caring for human beings who are facing death as a more imminent and immediately concrete concern. Person...

Medical and psychological discourse on end-of-life care has steadily shifted over the years from focusing primarily on symptom control and pain management to incorporating more person-centred approaches to patient care. Such approaches underscore the significance of spirituality and meaning making as important resources for coping with emotional and existential suffering as one nears death. Tho...

Axis I: Anxiety, Mood, and Psychotic Disorders Rollo May’s Th e Meaning of Anxiety (Norton, 1977, revised edition), Viktor Frankl’s Th e Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy (Vintage, 1986, third edition), and Kirk Schneider’s Existential– Integrative Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2008) provide accounts of the succession from more healthy (e.g., constructive anxiety, phase of life...