FAMILIES

Family logotherapy is a relatively new and not yet widespread approach in family therapy. It differs in its fundamental assumptions and views on family functioning from the systemic family therapy popular in Spain, with some points notably common to both systems.

After all, the creator of family logotherapy, James E. Lantz (1992) was inspired not only by Frankl's psychotherapy focused on the meaning of life, but also by other approaches. Family logotherapy is based on its fundamental premise of logophilosophy, but it is not immune to the influence of the classical approach to family therapy.

The work of a logotherapist oscillates on a delicate border between the common and the individual. The subject of interactions includes both the family as a unique set of shared meanings and values, and the independent universes of each member individually.

Similarly, in the systemic understanding of the family, we speak of both the “I” of its individual members and the “family ego” and the consolidation of both. Logotherapy makes it possible for individuals to find and live the meaning of existence in relation to being part of a group of people who are close to each other, who, despite many significant differences, are connected by the most enduring bond that is mutual love.

Family logotherapy facilitates the process of the family's search for meaning, supporting individual members in clarifying and implementing the noetic dimension of their functioning. It should be emphasized that the role of a logotherapist is to facilitate the process of discovery and realization of the family universe, not to provide meanings already prepared and adapted to the client's needs. Experiencing values and meanings is only possible through self-transcendence, which is a detachment from the psychosomatic dimension of functioning towards reflection.

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