Logotherapy

“Man’s Search for Meaning,” is a book written by Viktor E. Frankl, a psychologist as well as a Holocaust survivor. He overcame the concentration camp and was even strong enough to record his experience for the future generations. It is evident that Dr. Frankl was an intelligent man, but he was also very determined. “Man’s Search for Meaning” revealed plenty about the author but also brought an abundance of knowledge about the psychological makeup of a person. This paper will provide a quick…

Victor Frankl was a psychiatrist in practice in Vienna before World War II; he survived many years Auschwitz and other death camps. In Man’s Searching for Meaning he manages to convey his experience of living inside one of these death camps from the unique perspective an inmate who is also a healer, ever watchful and caring towards those around him. From his descriptions, we know that he live through an extended horrific nightmare that we do not even want to imagine. We can really only bear this…

Auspiciously, also Schweitzer (1960), in his ethics of Reverence for Life, offered a solution to his Humanist catuskoti. In essence, he stated that a priori a person’s radical liberty consisted in one’s ability to choose attitudes always freely. Therefore, grounded on an ethical decision, the person could not only embrace life, in defiance of the objective lack of meaning, it was further intrinsically forced to such a performance, for being the existential requirement for its constitution. In…

and the death became subsequently meaningless as utter apathy was typically reached by that point. Virtually all of the survivors were able to persevere through the barbaric conditions by fulfilling the expectations of Frankl’s proposed idea of logotherapy, the belief that striving to find a meaning in one's life is the most powerful…

For the first section of the book, Frankl gives a valid argument. He explains each stage thoroughly, and not only gives examples of his fellow prisoners, but things he saw in himself. The images he gave were vivid and helped get his point across, for if the reader could not understand how vulgar the camps were, they would not understand the extent of their psychological reaction. Describing things such as the work, the beatings, and the conditions in which they lived, help us have a greater…

Viktor Frankl is among the fundamental concepts upon which the theory of meaning was developed by Patricia L. Starck. Starck, (2014) describes her 20 year professional relationship with Viktor Frankl and her extensive involvement with Frankl’s logotherapy as being great influences on the development of the theory of meaning (Smith & Liehr, 2014). Viktor Frankl Viktor Frankl was an Austrian Neurologist and Psychiatrist who was also interned at four different concentration camps during the Nazi…

According to Frankl, suffering contributes to one’s meaning and to one’s life. suffering is useless or in vain according to Frankl. Man spends time and talents, by way of accepting, experiencing, even trying to solve or avoid the problem of suffering. Logotherapy holds that suffering has something to contribute to life. As Kahlil Gibran rightly observed: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that it’s heart may stand…

developed his own unique method – logotherapy, based on the existential analysis. Existentialism – is a philosophical “school” that appeared in the middle of 20th century and worked with the problem of ethics, freedom, oppression and meaning of the human life. “Man’s Search for Meaning” structure consists of two main parts. First - authors diary, telling the story of the imprisonment and struggle for the survival in the concentration camps. Second part sets out the logotherapy theoretical…

It was then that Frankl became the head of AmSteinhop Psychiatric Hospital. Frankl mostly worked on suicidal women and began to study why some women were proun to suicidal tendencies. During this time, Frankl developed his own approach known as Logotherapy, which was called the third wave of Viennese psychology. In 1938, Nazis overran Austria. As the head of Neurology at Rothschild hospital, Frankl would purposefully misdiagnose schizophrenics so they would not be euthanized but the Nazi Right.…

In the film Alive, a Uruguayan rugby team struggles to survive after crashing down on the Andes in 1972. As a result of this incident, various needs become affected and altered as a result of lost contact with their surrounding environment, and dependency on what remains from the crash. With this occurring, the need of various ideas and aspects can be witnessed more thoroughly. This can be applied to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, created by Abraham Maslow in 1943. This states that people are…