The Role of Meaning in Mental Health

Psych Spiels & Silver Linings

Chris and Rowan discuss the role of meaning and purpose in mental health and modern psychology.

We talk about how positive psychology has reintegrated the importance of meaning and purpose into the field of psychology and how some of the latest research has backed up the importance of meaning for our mental well-being.

We look at why meaning and purpose were de-emphasised by some of the earlier psychologists like Sigmund Freud and why they later re-emerged through the work of people like Martin Seligman and Michael Steger.