HST032: Purpose and Meaning with Dr. Aaron Smith

Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 12:51 a.m.

Dr. Aaron James Smith is a United States Marine and Associate Professor at Western Washington University. His focus is on military veterans and Existential Psychotherapy.

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  • Aaron's journey from the Marines to Veteran Mental Health
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  • Lack of conversation about purpose and meaning in veteran mental health
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  • Logotherapy and Viktor Frankl
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  • Identifying the future in order to deal with the past
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  • Three tenets of logotherapy: Freedom of Will, Will to Meaning, and Meaning of Life
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  • Veterans already have the knowledge to heal, they just need help to become aware of it
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  • Posttraumatic Growth
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  • Veterans and awareness of their own mortality
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