HST032: Purpose and Meaning with Dr. Aaron Smith
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.
IN THIS PARTICULAR EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN:
- Aaron's journey from the Marines to Veteran Mental Health
- Lack of conversation about purpose and meaning in veteran mental health
- Logotherapy and Viktor Frankl
- Identifying the future in order to deal with the past
- Three tenets of logotherapy: Freedom of Will, Will to Meaning, and Meaning of Life
- Veterans already have the knowledge to heal, they just need help to become aware of it
- Posttraumatic Growth
- Veterans and awareness of their own mortality