Viktor Frankl

about a hopeful future. An author of a famous book called Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey, tells us the story of early 20th century psychiatrist, Viktor Frankl. Frankl who was trained by Freudian psychology explains to us that our lives and personalities are mostly shaped by the occurrences in our childhood. Frankl was also a Jew who survived the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. Throughout his time there he believed that the Nazi’s could never take away something that…

extract, and the Viktor Frankl extract. How does each author treat this specific topic? Consider similarities, differences, and themes. (Possible topics to consider: Memory, forgiveness, human will/attitude, etc.) In the book Night, Elie Wiesel sorted out light bulbs and other items while Viktor Frankl had to dig ditches. Corrie ten Boom, Elie Wiesel, and Viktor Frankl all believed in God but during the book Night Elie lost a little bit of faith in god, while Corrie and Viktor still kept on…

There are two things that impact your life during every moment: faith and belief. Viktor Frankl was a man who survived the Nazi takeover despite his wife, mother, and brother being killed. While he could have fallen into a great despair during that time, his belief was that finding meaning in your life can help you overcome painful experiences. He is a huge example of how faith and belief can impact your life positively or negatively despite your situation. Having Faith Things Will Turn Out…

‘There’s More to Life Than Being Happy’ Emily Esfahani Smith’s article ‘There’s More to Life Than Being Happy’ (The Atlantic: June 2013) discusses the ideas in a book written by Viktor Frankl, a prominent Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist who was a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. In his book, Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl concludes that camp prisoners who had found meaning in their life were more satisfied and therefore more likely to survive. Those that had merely been happy in life…

discovering meaning despite it and even though the hardships. Viktor Frankl shows us that “in some way, suffering ceases to be…

Holocaust. When the Nazis started the movement of the Jewish population to the ghettos and the deportation of the foreign Jews, many denied that bad things were happening. They couldn 't fathom that people were being murdered just for their religion. Frankl described, “the symptom that characterizes the first phase is shock. Under certain conditions shock may even precede the prisoner’s formal admission to the camp. (22). When Moshe came back to the town after months, having escaped the Nazis,…

The Holocaust survivor, Viktor E. Frankl said “when we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves.” While in the Holocaust, Frank was faced to change himself and his perspective because of the trauma he faced at the camp. Viktor E. Frankl is similar to Elie Wiesel because they were holocaust survivors, and their lives and views were changed along with the mood of the story, while in the concentration camp. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night the mood shifts from…

ethos, logos, and pathos to show what makes one happy. The first rhetorical device that was used was ethos. For example one way that the author used this device was by using a story in the beginning of her essay. The story she used was about Viktor Frankl, a Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist, that had experienced the horrific concentration camps, and Smith compared “the values of suffering” (Smith, 2013, para.5) with “pursuit of individual happiness” (Smith, 2013, para.5). She was trying to…

keystone for modern psychology, I wouldn’t like to die the way he did. On the other hand, there’s a person called Viktor Frankl. Viktor Frankl, Jewish author-psychoanalyst, ended in death camp of Auschwitz in Germany during the Second World War and Hitler’s occupation. Moreover, his pregnant wife and parents were killed while they were all in the death camp. How do you live after that? Frankl decides to give his life to people around him, to give them his food, his clothes, and to treat people…

each of these philosophers agrees on this particular idea (e.g., each of these philosophers agrees that...use references from the text to show that this is so). Do you agree with the view the philosophers put forward? Why, or why not? Plato and Viktor Frankl both have similar views on approaching life from a different perspective with the intended outcome of not only enlightenment, but also that of forever changing the way we view life for our ultimate benefit. They both presented reasoning…