Essays on Viktor Frankl

Writing that person it's more than just a product of heredity and environment, Frankl pointed out that people are gifted with the ability to shape themselves and their life experiences. The man is influenced by nature (heredity) as well as by nurture (environment). But as Frankl emphasizes, a person always has freedom of choice. People can choose how to deal with what nature and environment “offer” them. On the one hand, I find it difficult to agree with the statement that Frankl, that man - is more than just the result of genetic and environmental influences. I believe that ...

“Meaning cannot be invented but must be discovered” is a mysterious viktor Frakl's lesson that I learned by experience. I was lying on my back on a squeaky make-shift bed late one morning high in the Yosemite Park smiling at the ceiling and thinking how my idea of a romantic vacation was washed away in a day. Neil had brought me camping and surprising enough, I enjoyed it a lot. As I reflected and wondered how my ideas of happy moments were far from the happiness and unexplained joy which I had at that moment, Neil was out fixing breakfast. I hurriedly dressed in ...

Laura Tappan

Southwestern College CLO499 Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl Obtained concepts from reading: Viktor Frankl’s book focuses on the theme of logenic neuroses in these particular parts. The readings presented here focus mostly on logotherapy and the concept of logenic neuroses as a means to discover man’s search for meaning. The concepts obtained were chiefly in relation to the effects of logenic neuroses and how this can have a positive and soothing effect for those persons who are suffering from depression and other problematic psychological troubles.

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Although the reading is interesting and sheds ...

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Introduction: Viktor Frankl’s seminal book was written in 1946 and draws on his experiences in four different concentration camps but particularly during his time in Auschwitz, that great factory of mass murder where over 1.5 million Jews and other political prisoners were exterminated. Frankl had to suffer several of his family’s deaths including his pregnant wife while he had to continue labouring and blocking out the suffering from his mind. Frankl’s encounters with the terrible and almost unreal experiences in the concentration camps truly prove to be harrwoing reading. Yet he is constantly searching ...

Many of us get easily depressed, frustrated and even overwhelmed by the most inconsiderable misfortunes because we are unsuccessful in finding meaning in the everyday activities of our lives. Even in the situations that make life unbearable, we can find the perseverance to continue and pursue a more fulfilling life if we understand the meaning to our life, learn to love others and find value in our suffering. In his book Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl shows us that for own our mental and physical well being it is necessary that we find our life’s meaning. What makes ...

Biographical method of personality research occupies an important place in the arsenal of modern psychology and related sciences. Its development has a long, rich history created by philosophers, historians, sociologists, art historians, scientists and, of course, psychologists. Among those who have made a significant contribution to the development of biographical psychology in XX century there are psychologists Sigmund Freud, Charlotte Buhler, Viktor Frankl, Alfred Adler, Hans Tome, Gordon Allport, Maslow and others. There is a growing trend in the modern science for the integral study of personality throughout the whole life on the scale of historical epoch, which is why the ...

Dr. Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning explored the existential difficulty he and all human beings face during and after a life shattering experience such as what he and millions of other endured at the hands of the Nazis. Frankl’s written journey through the torture of the Nazi concentration camps tours the human mind, becoming a written map of the human experience. Dr. Frankl examines the different stages that people go through as they transition into a reality so different from their own, exploring how individuals cope with their new reality and how they react when facing a world ...