...Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna, Austria where he was known as a doctor who was working at a psychiatric hospital. As Frankl lived in Vienna he pursed his education a little more. Frankl was working on a book at the time which he was doing different observations and analysis. Which he wasn’t looking for his book to be a top seller, just a piece of something that he had done. But before Frankl could finish up his book, the year of 1942 in the month of September, Frankl, along with his family, were captured and became a victim of concentration camps. He and his family and hundreds more people were taken to a camp. Upon arrival at the camp Frankl and his family were split up into different groups and separated for good. All the prisoners...
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...Throughout the book Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, a boy who does not know his place in life, illustrates the human need for logotherapy. Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor, wrote "Mans search for meaning", in which he describes his experiences and ways of resisting the efforts of dehumanization in the holocaust. In Viktor Frankl's writing he delineates Logotherapy, which are three principles of mankind. The main character in Catcher in the Rye is Holden Caulfield, he is an unstable young man, who wanders around New York for three days, without knowing where to go or what do. Holden Caulfield would benefit if he applied Logotherapy to his everyday life. The first principle of logotherapy states that's man has an inborn will to meaning, "We seek to live not only for ourselves, but to contribute something of worth to other people and to the world we live in."(370) Holden Caulfield rarely shows this trait, but he does reveal it seldomly to people he does not know for example when he says to a cab driver, "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near central park? That little lake? By any chance do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over?∦"(60) This exhibits that Holden cares for some things, which means he has a will to meaning somewhere inside of him, he just needs to find it, like one of his teachers says, "∦but I can very clearly see you dying nobly, for some highly unworthy cause"(188) In this quote, Mr. Antolini...
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...logotherapy. It was first coined Dr. Victor Emil Frankl. Frankl is mostly known for his book, Mans search for Meaning where he uses his life as an example to show that even after losing everything dear to them, human beings can still find meaning in his life. Frankl went through four concentration camps where he lost his wife, father and mother. Even after all this suffering Frankl still managed to find meaning in his life. Frankl’s suffering can be said to be the main motivation towards the development of Logotherapy. Key terms are Logotheraphy, Viktor Frankl, psychoanalysis. Development of Logotherapy. Viktor Frankl became interested in medicine while still an adolescent. He became interested in psychology while in High School (Life and Work, n.d). Frankl attended the same school as Sigmund Freud. Frankl became interested in Freud’s thinking and philosophies. Frankl started correspondence with Freud but soon differed with Freud’s thinking that sexual impulses explain a majority of human behavior Frankl claimed that Freud’s thinking to be too dogmatic to explain human being behavior. After leaving Freud, Frankl became interested in Alfred Alder’s philosophy on individual psychology. Individual psychology was mainly relied on environmental and societal factors to explain human behavior. Frankl however left Alder claiming to be that Alder’s thinking promoted the same psychology dogma as Freud. While as a follower of Freud and Alder, Frankl was able to reclaim fragments of his faith...
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...Summary In Man’s Search for Meaning, psychiatrist and neurologist Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) wrote about his time as a concentration camp inmate during the Second World War. One thing he found out was it was not about those who were physically strong, who survived longest in concentration camps, but those who had a sense of control over their environment. Viktor Frankl was one of the few, who survived in a place. This was in a place that eventually millions of people would die. After three years in various concentration camps, his camp Türkheim was liberated, upon which he returned to Vienna, where he was born. Frankl then spent the rest of his life teaching what he’d learned during the worst of times. That people can, and must, find meaning...
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...Phillip Robertson 11/21/14 Dr. Michael Railey Biographical Sketch Viktor E. Frankl the author of Man’s Search for Meaning had a very important and eventful life. His life before being forced into the Nazi concentration camps although vague showed that he was a very accomplished psychiatrist with a scientific journal ready for publication and a loving husband. He then became a forced laborer until his medical skills saved him. He was moved from forced labor to a position as a doctor helping typhus patients until his camp was liberated. After his imprisonment in the concentration camps he used his experiences and observations of all he had seen to form a new school of psychology called Logotherapy. Summary The book starts off in the transport...
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...other line you immediately interrupt her to tell her it is dire that you get a new phone as soon as possible. After ignorantly insisting for a new phone your mother then informs you that your grandmother has severely fallen and it is not looking to good for her and she might not make it. Taken back you instantly realize how selfish and ungrateful you were acting. Sometimes people get caught up in materialistic things and lose sight of the true meaning of life. It is moments like these that bring us back to reality and remind us not to get caught up in the little things in life. With that in mind, Dr. Viktor Frankl does an exceptional job in Man’s Search for Meaning portraying the true meaning of life, which more often than not in our materialistic world many people lose sight of. Through his research and first hand experience in the concentration camps, Dr. Viktor Frankl is able to teach us that it is not the...
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...Tasia Barefield PHIL 104 - 003 Professor Steinbock 2-19-13 What is the Meaning of Life? After reading A Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor R. Frankl and short story The Grand Inquisitor on the Nature of Man by Fyodor Dostoevsky, one may begin to question freedom and the meaning of life is. Both books give their readers an abundance of information for them to decide for themselves if these two things go hand in hand. After reading both books I came to realize that a person does not need to be free to have a meaning of life. A person can find happiness in any situation they are placed in when they just have to find a reason to be happy. The Grand Inquisitor on the Nature of Man is a short story from the novel The Brothers Karamazov. The story about human nature and freedom is told by Ivan to his younger brother Alyosha. Alyosha just so happens to be a Monk and Ivan questions if there is a God. Their discussion is very dramatic and causes its readers to assume Ivan’s standpoint on religious faith. It almost seems as if Ivan is trying to get Alyosha to really think about his faith. He never says what he truly believes in; he kept his role as storyteller throughout the whole story. Dostoevsky’s story is about Jesus returning to earth to the city of Seville, during the Spanish Inquisition. He explains that the people automatically recognized him when they first saw him. Ivan explains to Alyosha saying: He comes silently and unannounced;...
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...determine the rules that ought to govern human conduct, the values worth pursuing, and the character traits deserving development in life.  Responsibility as a key concept of contemporary morality Although often used, the term is rarely explained in the business ethics literature. Max Weber 1919: separates the ethics of conviction from the ethics of responsibility. Walter Schulz 1972: defines responsibility as „self-commitment originating from freedom in worldly relationships,“ maintaining the polarity of responsibility (with an inner and an outer pole). Responsibility includes three components:  Subject: Authority: Contents: Who is responsible? To whom is one responsible? For what is one responsible? Viktor E. Frankl in “Man’s Search for Meaning“ (1984): “Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibility. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibility. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West...
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...A Critical Review of Man’s Search for Meaning by Laura Beres Introduction In Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl tells the very personal story of his experience as a prisoner in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. He presents this story in the form of an essay in which he shares his arguments and analysis as a doctor and psychologist as well as a former prisoner. This paper will review Frankl’s story as well as his main arguments, and will evaluate the quality of Frankl’s writing and focus on any areas of weakness within the story. Summary This section contains a summary of Man's Search. Frankl begins his book by stating that his purpose in writing the book is not to present facts and details of the Holocaust, but to provide a personal account of the everyday life of a prisoner living in a concentration camp. He states, “This tale is not concerned with the great horrors, which have already been described often enough (though less often believed), but…it will try to answer this question: How was everyday life in a concentration camp reflected in the mind of the average prisoner?” (21). Frankl then goes on to describe the three stages of a prisoner’s psychological reactions to being held captive in a concentration camp. The first phase, which occurs just after the prisoner is admitted to the camp, is shock. The second phase, occurring once the prisoner has fallen into a routine within the camp, is one of apathy, or “the blunting...
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...concentration camps during World War II; however, Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is the both a fascinating and hopeful book from this period. This book is comprised of two primary parts. Part one is “Experiences in a Concentration Camp,” and part two is titled “Logotherapy in a Nutshell”. There is also a postscript entitled “The Case for a Tragic Optimism”. Throughout the book, Frankl gives the readers a new perspective about to how to view life and reiterates the statement that life is utterly what you decide to make of it. Frankl clearly states that he did not want to solely focus on the negative aspects from his stay in four different Concentration Camps including Auschwitz and Dachau but rather his own personal experience of survival. Immediately upon entering Auschwitz in 1942, he had to part ways with his prized almost completed scientific manuscript, which meant a great deal to him. Man’s Search for Meaning teaches the reader that it is possible to be positive in the most dire of situations. There are several factors in the book that Frankl discusses that helped him survive in the camps. He noted that there are three phases of the inmate’s mental reactions to life in camp: the admission period, the period when he is deep into the camp routine, and that after his release and liberation. His camp experience seemed nothing shy of a nightmare. Liberation was hard to accept because Dr. Frankl was not prepared for its unhappiness and disillusionment. Despite...
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...Risk Management: Task 1C Dave Christian Western Governors University Author Note Research conducted by Dave Christian, College of Business, Western Governors University. Dave Christian is now founder at Helpology. This paper is referenced as an American Psychological Association (APA) research paper template available for free, worldwide use at Helpology (helpology.org) categorized under: Helpology Lifelist/Respect/Writing/FREE Helpology APA. Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to Dave Christian, Founder, Helpology, 2340 E. University Dr., Lot 85, Tempe, AZ 85281; Phone: (480) 331-9631; Email: Mr.Dave.Christian@gmail.com; Web site: helpology.org. Risk Management: Task 1C Austrian psychologist Viktor E. Frankl (n.d.) said, "Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it." As a newly hired consultant, we have been tasked with the duties of creating and presenting a risk management/business contingency plan for our first client. The legal department and the IT department have both expressed concerns regarding the ethical use and protection of sensitive data, customer records, and other information systems content. In the interest of creating confidence and job satisfaction in this new position, our new employer has decided...
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...every one free will and intellect, so we need it on determining what is considered good and bad. He supposes that we should give up a little freedom in order to obtain more happiness. Geneus 2 Value does not always make a person seem good, but the enormous increase of happiness does. He gives the example of “what if we were able to eliminate poverty, crime, and great suffering in the world by sacrificing at least one independent ability, would people take part in such involvement.” [2]If people did, autonomy would be decreased. Victor Frankl a member of the concentration camp, on the other hand believes that if one “has a why to live for, then they can bear with almost anyhow”.[3] While in the camp Frankl encountered many martyrs, he saw that they still had inner freedom and it could not be lost all though they were suffering or dead. He dreads not being worthy of his suffering, because they were. Frankl and Walker also believed that spiritual freedom could not be taken...
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...Psychotherapies BEH/225 Kristie Browning September 1, 2015 Joshua Paul Humanistic therapies are used to help patients gain insight into their feelings, emotions, and behaviors. The three main psychotherapies are client-centered therapy, existential therapy, and gestalt therapy. Psychotherapy has often been depicted as a complete personal transformation—a sort of “major overhaul” of the psyche. But therapy is not equally effective for all problems (Coon & Mitterer, 2013). Client-Centered Therapy was developed by Carl Rogers. Rogers referred to his Patients as clients rather than patients because he felt by calling them patients It made it sound as if they were sick and needed treatment in order to be cured. Rogers also thought that what may be right for the therapist may not be right for the client. It was Rogers that also allowed his clients to talk about what they wanted to talk about in their sessions together. Client- centered therapy focuses on finding one’s true self that is hidden deep within one’s own defenses (Coon & Mitterer, 2013). Existential Therapy has some similarities as client-centered therapy such as, both therapies promote self-knowledge. With that being said there are prominent differences as well. Existential therapists try to give clients the courage to make rewarding and socially constructive choices. Typically, therapy focuses on death...
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...Throughout history, the Holocaust has remains one of the most inhuman events to have ever taken place. So many individuals died in tortuous ways, and nothing will ever make that right. After reading Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, I have a whole new look of the things that are happening around me. During the story, Frankl was put through horrible situations; however, he never gave up because he had a reason to push on and live. After reading about his experiences, Frankl’s book has taught me so many things and has impacted my life in a whole new way. During the story, Viktor Frankl used inspiration to survive the Holocaust. Although I cannot relate to the fight for survival, the book has taught me to never give up on any goal I...
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...Alicia Thomas-Williams Philosophy of Human Nature April 16, 2014 Existentialism can be defined as a “philosophical movement oriented toward two major themes the analysis of human existence and the centrality of human choice.” If is a philosophy that implies that one can define his own value or meaning of life in a peace that is void of meaning. There’s also an implication that one has the freedom to choose his or own path. Existentialism is a belief that one has the freedom to make his or her own choices and with his freedom comes individuality, authenticity and responsibility. In order to possess a certain amount of individuality you must have a certain amount of freedom to think in a way that conducive to your way of life. In other words, existentialism is the essence of humanity, the thing that makes us different from anyone and anything else in the world. Merriam-Webster defines freedom as the state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint; the quality or state of being free: as a: the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action; liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another. Some years ago when there was slavery, people of color had to do as they were told, they had no freedom. They were told when they could use the restroom, which water fountain to drink from, they had no say so. They couldn’t change the status of slavery unless they were killed...
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