ABSTRACT
The helping professions, all of them, psychiatry, psychotherapy, family therapy, coaching, etc, have handcuffed themselves in their ability to be of enough help to the people they see by virtue of never having acquired useful, on-point language regarding our human needs for meaning and life purpose. Even existential psychotherapy and existential coaching, and sub-branches of these like logotherapy, which ought to have created good language to help individuals with their life purpose challenges and meaning issues, have not. Humane helping includes dealing with the life purpose and meaning needs of clients. This work helps a client deal with current distress; it may also forestall future distress. Most helpers, humane or otherwise, have not a clue about how to talk about life purpose and meaning with their clients or how to help sufferers deal with their life purpose issues and meaning crises.
