The Psychology of Meaning in Life

The new edition has been thoroughly updated to offer an inspiring exploration of cutting-edge findings from the psychology of meaning in life. Schnell draws on multiple psychological and philosophical perspectives, including those from existential, clinical, and lived experience to introduce a multidimensional model of meaning in life.

Tatjana Schnell is Professor of Existential Psychology at MF Specialized University, Oslo, Norway, and Fellow at the Humanistic University of Berlin, Germany. As head of the Existential Psychology Lab, she focuses on fundamental questions of how to conceptualise and measure meaning in life, and on the nexus of meaning in life and health, work, worldview, suffering and dying, civic engagement, and alienation.

1. Searching for meaning?. 2. Meaning defined. 3. Measuring meaning in life. 4. Meaning as attribution. 5. Sources of meaning. 6. Varieties of meaning. 7. Meaning in life and worldview. 8. The social dimension of meaning in life. 9. Crises of meaning - When foundations shake. 10. Existential indifference. 11. Meaning and happiness. 12. Meaning, health, and illness.13. Meaning and existence in practice. 14. Meaning in work. 15. Outlook: Meaning and the good life.