REKREATİF AKTİVİTELERE PSİKOLOJİK AÇIDAN YAKLAŞIM: VİKTOR FRANKL EKOLÜNÜN İNCELENMESİ

This article deals with recreational activities in accordance with Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's point of view. In the article, first of all, Frankl's psychology school was emphasized and in particular, comments and evaluations were made about recreational activities in the axis of his school. The article is based on the primary source works of Frankl, but it also includes the views of Adler, Tolstoy and Kafka who are influential in the author's world of thought. In this article, by using content analysis technique of qualitative research methods; the works written by Frankl were subjected to both detailed reading and professional reading with “recreational activities” glasses. In other words, theoretical discussion method was used on literature review. In the article, four main findings have been reached. According to the findings, Frankl explained recreational activities as mechanism / activity / phenomenon: (1) Regulatory mechanism of the feeling of existential gap (2) Activity meeting the individual's search for meaning (3) Leisure activity directed to the center (4) Intention-related phenomenon. This paper, which is an exploratory study, presents the narrative and evaluations that aim to contribute to the future studies on the basis of different psychology schools.