About VFISA

VFISA Vision

Last Updated on Saturday, 21 November 2009 15:30

The aim of the Viktor Frankl Institute in South Africa is to enable more and more people in our wonderful country to lead fuller and more meaningful lives. We offer training courses in Logotherapy, the school of thought developed by the late Dr Viktor Frankl, famous psychiatrist and philosopher and author of the bestseller: Man's Search for Meaning. We also disseminate knowledge of Logotherapy through public presentations, workshops and lectures.

We live in tense times earmarked by threat and insecurity. The lack of freedom and personal choice in so many totalitarian regimes with its extremes of fanaticism and oppression on the one hand and, on the other hand, a free-for-all lack of responsibility and sound value systems in much of the free world and in South Africa today, have created an all-pervading sense of emptiness or meaninglessness in our world. This void or existential vacuum leads to a frantic search for power which finds expression in the violence, terrorism, crime and lawlessness we witness in much of our world today. A lack of purpose in life also gives rise to a senseless lust after pleasure resulting in addictions, sexual immorality and materialistic greed. The despair of finding any enduring meaning in life leads to mental illness, depression and suicide. The need to find meaning and purpose in life has therefore become the most urgent need of our times.

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