In Search of Meaning

1: Meaning and Man.- 1. Meaninglessness as an Expression of One-Sidedness.- 2. The Meaning of Health.- 3. Positive Psychotherapy: Answer to the Question of Meaning.- 2: Giving Meaning And Finding Meaning.- 1. Transcultural Encounters.- 2. Concepts of the Religious Worldview.- 3. The Contribution of Scientific Thinking.- 4. The Life of the Individual.- 3: Psychotherapy of Small Steps.- 1. Three working Possibilities of Positive Psychotherapy.- 2. Meaning in East and West.- 3. The Meaning of Illness.- 4. Five Stages in Positive Psychotherapy.- 4: Questions of Meaning.- Many questions, many answers.- «The appropriate word».- Child rearing and psychotherapy.- Psychological meaning of time.- What do you understand by basic capacities?.- Is man essentially good?.- Where are the basic capacities found?.- What are the functions of the actual capacities?.- How do you as a psychotherapist stand in relation to sexuality?.- What does child rearing consist of in terms of contents?.- How are love and justice related?.- What is the relationship between anxiety, aggression, and imitation?.- Can one get something back that one has let slip away?.- Good intentions.- The unknown.- Man and wife.- What does faith have to do with psychotherapy?.- What do all the religions have in common?.- Seven attributes.- From the point of view of psychology, how do prejudices arise?.- Religion and well-known personalities why do the learned and the religious leaders speak so harshly of a new religion? What explanations are there for the existence of a Creator?.- Why can't one know the essence of God?.- Religion and existential anxiety.- Isn't everything over with death?.- Reincarnation.- What do the scientists say about life after death?.- 5: The Golden age of the Future.- «End or dawn?».-Planned future.- Future made to order?.- Suggestions and considerations concerning world peace.- The contribution of the politicians to the transcultural encounter.- The contribution of the religious leaders.- The

Prof. h.c. Dr. med. Nossrat Peseschkian, Facharzt für Psychiatrie, Neurologie und Psychotherapie, wurde 1933 im Iran geboren und lebte seit 1954 in Deutschland. Er war Begründer der Positiven Psychotherapie; eine intensive Forschungs- und Lehrtätigkeit führte ihn in über 60 Staaten. Nossrat Peseschkian war Autor einer Vielzahl erfolgreicher Bücher, die in über 25 Sprachen übersetzt worden sind. Er starb am 27.4.2010.