Viktor Frankl

that “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” This was a key concept in Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning. Frankl had to see many horrible things while he was a Nazi prisoner, but by changing his mindset and the way he looked at things, he was able to overcome all of the hardships that were thrown at him and lived to tell his incredible story. Like Frankl, we as Honor’s Students are about to experience a world of difference. Sometimes it will be…

“There’s More to Life Than Being Happy” is a journal article that was written by Emily Esfahani Smith. It was published on January 9, 2013. Its purpose is simply to explain to the audience that, ‘It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness’ (Smith 2013). I very much enjoyed this journal article because after reading it I felt that I had actually connected to it. For example, a big topic that she focused on while writing this article, was that being happy dealt with “taking”,…

Mind over Matter Only the most intelligent people understand to what extent people are able to control their lives with their minds. In Man’s Search for Meaning by Vik E. Frankl, Jews in concentration camps use their minds to escape from their daily tortures. Meursault did not use his mind to control himself and paid the price in The Stranger by Albert Camus. The Wachowski brothers directed “The Matrix”, in which Neo used his mind to escape from the Matrix, and the Oracle tricked his mind in…

The book “The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism” by Viktor Frankl is a book focusing on the personality of people and the different functions and potentials that individuals have. In the first reading, he discussed defense mechanisms and it was fascinating because unknowingly these mechanisms affect our everyday interactions and personalities. Defense mechanisms are a part of who we are and sometimes that is good and bad. This made me reflect on my own defense mechanisms…

Smith uses credible resources to back up the idea that “There’s more to than being happy” by quoting Frankl Viktor’s 1946 book, “Man’s Search for Meaning.’’ Viktor was a prominent Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist in Vienna while living in a Nazi concentration camp. He wrote the book in nine days telling about his experience living at the camps and what he noticed between those…

acts. Why then, do we not look to them, but to larger than life figures that draw everyone’s attention? Viktor E. Frankl and Elie Wiesel are two men who show demonstrate virtues a hero should have. The tragedies these two men faced were horrid, yet look at the outcome of what happened to them. They both made it through their hardships which shows a tremendous amount of tenacity and courage. Frankl and Wiesel also have demonstrated humility, integrity and respect. When they both wrote their…

As long as we are still alive, we still experience negative feelings, and that cannot be avoided. Negative feelings are all around. However, Viktor E. Frankl misses the point that we all can recognize that suffering is only a fact, a part of human life. Pain, loss, sadness, or other negative feelings are never our target to reach as our success or our goal in the entire life. So we can only consider…

According to multiple sources, one of the causes for them losing their faith is part of a psychological paradox. The memoir “Night” nods towards the fact that Elie was stuck in this mindless spiral. Viktor Frankl, another Holocaust survivor, supported the idea of the paradox when he said, “Only in this way can one explain the apparent paradox that some prisoners of a less hardy makeup often seemed to survive camp life better than did those of a robust nature…

reason to 'be happy.” (Smith, 2013) Smith talks about a Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist, Viktor Frankl who was transported to a Nazi concentration camp. “it was a question of getting them to realize that life was still expecting something from them; something in the future was expected of them." (Smith, 2013) While in the concentration Frankl had observed those who had lived and died through meaning. Frankl also concluded that those in the concentration camps and people in general who found…

perception of meaning(explain this term) comes down to “becoming aware of what can be done about a given situation” (Frankl 144), and the most important part of finding meaning in life is to “turn personal tragedy into triumph” (146). A person has both good and bad potentials, in addition to, the freedom to “choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s way” (Frankl 66). Inside all of us are virtues and vices, what is important is the part we choose to keep dormant and…