by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Nov 23, 2025 | Anxiety, Depression, Logotherapy, Meaning, Mental Health, Wellness
Last week, I wrote about Meaning – shocker, I know. But from that, came some great discussion in my office. I write about meaning often. I talk about meaning just about every day. I study the idea of meaning all the time. Sometimes I forget, not everybody...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Nov 16, 2025 | Anxiety, Depression, Logotherapy, Personal Growth, Wellness
Logotherapy—developed by Dr. Viktor Frankl—centers on one core idea: human beings can endure almost any “how” if they have a “why.” Its principles help people build meaning, resilience, and psychological flexibility. Here are practical ways to apply Logotherapy in...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Nov 2, 2025 | Anxiety, Depression, Logotherapy, Wellness
I’ve been saying this for a long time. Maybe you are not as depressed or anxious as you think you are. Surely, in my clinical opinion, for what it’s worth, you’re not that depressed or that anxious that you require medication. You see, when I...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Oct 19, 2025 | Logotherapy, Meaning, Mental Health, Relationships, Wellness
I am just now descending back into “the real world” after what seems like decades away from the office. In reality, it was only two weeks – several days on a Men’s Peer Group Retreat working with plant-based medicine in the mountains of...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Sep 29, 2025 | Anxiety, Depression, Logotherapy, Meaning, Mental Health, Wellness
Althought life feels like it might be going well for me, personally, right now, the nature of therapy is to bear witness to other’s tragedy – to the suffering of life. And, if I am lucky, or sometimes skilled, I get to help. Ideally, I get to witness...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Aug 24, 2025 | Affair Recovery, Meaning, Mental Health, Relationships, Wellness
I’ve shared dozens of times the differences between VIktor Frankl’s most famous book, Man’s Search for Meaning, a book I believe everyone should read, and the book that is considered to be his magnum opus, The Doctor and the Soul. Man’s Search...
