Applying Frankl's Logotherapy in Photography
Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy and the Search for Meaning Through Photography Discover how Viktor Frankl's logotherapy can be applied through photography to foster meaning, resilience, mindfulness, and personal growth. Can photography become a pathway to deeper meaning and personal transformation? Drawing on Viktor Frankl's logotherapy, this article explores how photography can serve as a practical tool for purpose, mindfulness, resilience, and existential growth. Through creative expression, experiential engagement, and attitudinal reflection, photography emerges as more than image-making—it becomes a meaningful way of engaging with life itself. Applying Frankl's Logotherapy Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy has long stood as a cornerstone of existential psychotherapy, emphasising the will to meaning as humanity’s primary motivational drive. Vernon Chalmers, a South African photographer, educator, and writer based in the Western Cape, has notably embodied this philosophical and...