Some ideas from the book:
There is no one overlying meaning - it is different for everyone and can change for the same person depending on their circumstances.
Logotherapy - therapy by finding meaning. Comes from the root of "logos"
You can find meaning through suffering, but only if it's unavoidable. Don't be a masochist.
Paradoxical intention: You can resolve a fear by doing the opposite. IE you can fix insomnia by having a person try to stay awake as long as they can.
Existential vacuum: The plague of our times. Life is devoid of meaning. (Maybe caused by a loss of religion and growth of mental health professions?) The vacuum can cause boredom, which causes more psychological problems than distress.
Man is self-deterministic. We can decide what the meanings for our own lives.
When people give up, they turn to temporary pleasures like smoking cigarettes in camp.
People can't search for happiness and you can't give someone happiness. We can only find reasons to be happy. Then we will be happy.
More things to look up:
Solutions focussed therapy
Austrian Economics
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