Meaning in Positive and Existential Psychology 53 They had to meet crises the 24th ER Conference They had to meet crises caused by forces of nature as well as crises originating in their own institutions Its main aim This book is a first attempt to combine insights from the two perspectives with regard to the question of meaning by examining a collection of theoretical and empirical works This volume therefore is destined to become an important addition to psychological literature: both from the viewpoint of the history of ideas (again this would be one of the first times that positive and existentialist psychologies meet) and from the viewpoint of theoretical and empirical research into the meaning concept in psychology