A Case Study of Suicide Prevention in Meaning Therapy.

A Case Study of Suicide Prevention in Meaning Therapy.

A tall and handsome young man walked into my counselling room with a drooping head. He spoke with a weak voice and he avoided any eye contact. He was a twenty-something client with a history of two attempted suicides and one hospitalization. He had been seen already...
Meaning Therapy for the Rich But Miserable People

Meaning Therapy for the Rich But Miserable People

I have worked with several rich, successful, but unhappy clients. They include CEOs, medical doctors, lawyers, movie stars, and consultants. My meaning-focused therapy has worked well with them because it is based on the new science of finding happiness through...
Coda: My Swan Song

Coda: My Swan Song

Dr. Paul T. P. Wong’s autobiography, A Lifelong Search for Meaning: Lessons on Virtue, Grit, and Faith, is published in weekly installments. Stay updated here. Writing my autobiography has been a long journey–it started in 2012 and completed in 2019. It was also a...
Meaning and Evil and a Two-factor Model of Search for Meaning

Meaning and Evil and a Two-factor Model of Search for Meaning

Abstract Overall, I am impressed with Baumeister and von Hippel’s analysis in this essay (this issue), but I am less satisfied in “the special issue of applying meaning to life, culminating in the modern existential debates about the meaning and purpose of life...