Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl and Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke are the two books that I read which helped me in the understanding of the counselling process through the association that I felt by reading how the authors offer numerous ways to the path of darkness. My goal in this paper is to relate and show how the Counselling process is integrated with the themes in the two books and reflect the myriad ways in which these authors offered a path to darkness.
Viktor E. Frankl wrote the book Man's Search formeaning mainly to give people the means and the ways to find purpose in their lives or more so to find meaning to their lives. The author was an Austrian psychotherapist who was imprisoned at a Nazi concentration …show more content…
I see that in his letters, Rainer encouraged the young poet to engage fully in what he does and indulge in those undertakings to the maximum and later contemplate them if possible in solitude. He also asks the young poet to integrate new ways and understandings of humanity into his creative and artistic life. In my opinion, this advice by Rainer to the young poet is very much similar to the counselling process since after disclosure and in-depth exploration as is seen in the earlier parts of his work. Rainer now moves on to the last part of the counselling process which is commitment to action. Commitment to action is very similar to what Rainer is passing through to the young poet, that they must be fully committed to what they are doing and thus, live life to the fullest. One might tend to think that due to the major similarities between the counselling process and Letters To A Young Poet, that the latter is some sort of a counselling guide.
In Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor firmly believes that every person usually has control of what will happen to them and that people have the ability to choose what will become of them mentally and spiritually. Due to his background as a psychotherapist, Viktor was able to observe the effect of the horror, cruelty and violence on his fellow prisoners during their stay at the hellish Nazi concentration camp. This was when he noted that individuals have the ability to choose what happens to them mentally and spiritually. This he wrote downand
Viktor E. Frankl wrote the book Man's Search formeaning mainly to give people the means and the ways to find purpose in their lives or more so to find meaning to their lives. The author was an Austrian psychotherapist who was imprisoned at a Nazi concentration …show more content…
I see that in his letters, Rainer encouraged the young poet to engage fully in what he does and indulge in those undertakings to the maximum and later contemplate them if possible in solitude. He also asks the young poet to integrate new ways and understandings of humanity into his creative and artistic life. In my opinion, this advice by Rainer to the young poet is very much similar to the counselling process since after disclosure and in-depth exploration as is seen in the earlier parts of his work. Rainer now moves on to the last part of the counselling process which is commitment to action. Commitment to action is very similar to what Rainer is passing through to the young poet, that they must be fully committed to what they are doing and thus, live life to the fullest. One might tend to think that due to the major similarities between the counselling process and Letters To A Young Poet, that the latter is some sort of a counselling guide.
In Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor firmly believes that every person usually has control of what will happen to them and that people have the ability to choose what will become of them mentally and spiritually. Due to his background as a psychotherapist, Viktor was able to observe the effect of the horror, cruelty and violence on his fellow prisoners during their stay at the hellish Nazi concentration camp. This was when he noted that individuals have the ability to choose what happens to them mentally and spiritually. This he wrote downand