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    While reading The Man Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl I was filled with so many emotions that changed my way of thinking. The details of the concentration camps and the thought of not knowing when the next meal or if living another day would be an option really touched me. It’s hard to believe something so terrible happened to such innocent people who were just living their everyday lives. Frankl draws the reader into the point where they feel as if they are with him surviving the…

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    Suffering Make Sense

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    Is suffering supposed to make sense? Why do we suffer? At first this question seems intuitive. However, after the first spontaneous outburst of answers, we start to question why there is suffering in the world and how we can make sense of it. Generally, when these ultimate questions are asked we tend to assert conclusions based on God or our personal values. It goes beyond that. Religion provides a guideline for these questions, and our values are extremely important for a sense of identity,…

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    1) Please describe the concept of unfinished business as used in Gestalt Therapy (2 points) a. Unfinished business refers to the idea that clients have some unresolved conflict that is holding them back at the present time. In other words, unfinished business can be described as the feelings that are associated with certain memories that the client is not completely aware of. Moreover, Gestalt therapists may use the process of figure formation to better understand how the individual organizes…

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    Happiness is a state of mind that which most people find themselves searching for in an attempt to create more positive experiences. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines happiness as a state of well-being good fortune, contentment, and pleasurable experience. As this definition is too general, people tend to offer their own interpretations. Some believe happiness can be found where there is money. Others disagree, they view that happiness lies in the acquirement of knowledge, high diplomas,…

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    think of what is essential to live meaningful lives. While the path to discovering one’s purpose and life’s meaning is unique, there is one particular barricade that can affect us all; the failure of self-forgiveness. Man’s Search For Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl, The Painted Veil, by W Somerset Maugham, and The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee…

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    When happiness is taken away from all areas of life; for example, Auschwitz and other concentration death camps. How could prisoners escape the reality of suffering, death, and abuse all concentrated upon themselves? Within the writings of Victor Frankl and the visual novel of Art Spiegelman, ways of coping are shown. The main idea of regaining any trace of happiness is to hold onto hope, followed…

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    order to move forward, one must first acknowledge the significance of the Holocaust in his or her life. After acknowledgement, the survivor can then begin the healing process by moving forward and discovering who they are and what their purpose is (Frankl 153). The AMCHA organization, which was originally the code word that identified fellow Jews during World War II, takes a similar approach in treatment. Today, this organization is the largest center for psychosocial support for Holocaust…

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    “Man’s Search for Meaning” Viktor Frankl shares the history of his troubling days spent as a prisoner in the concentration camps. The question then rises, if life is full of trouble how is it that we as people persevere and go on to live full lives? Are we only here to hold a place in space and time or is there a bigger purpose or meaning to our existence? Frankl brings us his principle that, you (the individual) do not choose your meaning; meaning chooses you. As Frankl and the others were…

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    Victor E. Frankl, the author of, "Man 's Search For Meaning", talks a great deal about suffering throughout the book. One of the main topics he discusses regarding suffering is that of hope. Without hope, there would be no point in anybody enduring the suffering that they encountered in the Nazi concentration camps. That suffering is life and that to survive suffering, one must find a means for the suffering. So, finding a reason for a person 's suffering will help that person to survive…

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    Famished inmates of Auschwitz’ concentration camp, including author Victor E. Frankl, sought bread above any other essential. Bread became solely a necessity. Prisoners of the Holocaust found themselves situated in a daily struggle to survive through the beatings, hunger, cold weather, worn rags and wrong-sized shoes, but more intensely through the psychological journey that each one of them had to undertake. Frankl notes that Man’s Search for Meaning is not another story in which the typical…

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