Meaning Centred approach

The main idea behind Meaning-Centred framework is that “lack of meaning is the chief source of stress as well as anxiety and can lead into emptiness, hopelessness and despair.
In other words, Meaning-Centred therapy is a type of psychotherapy that believes that lack of meaning causes mental health issues, so it attempts to help people find meaning in their life and experiences.

Meaning-Centred framework promote the idea that humans are motivated by a “will to meaning” as opposed to the “will to pleasure” and “will to power“.

This form of psychotherapy partially grew out of Dr.Viktor Emil Frankl’s frustration with these other schools of thought. Specifically, Frankl felt that psychoanalysis was too reductionist, in that it abandoned genuine and spontaneous human encounters for methodological reasons.