Word: frankl
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...Viktor E. Frankl, 62, founder of logotherapy, is a lecturer at the University of Vienna, as was Freud. But Frankl has dismissed Freud's idea that human beings are driven mainly by sexual energy, no matter how broadly defined. Similarly, he rejects Adler's emphasis on power drives and Jung's turning back to vague, ancestral archetypes. He has only contempt for the reductionist, or "nothing-but" schools, which define man as nothing but a biochemical machine or nothing but the product of his conditioning or nothing but an economic animal. What is left? Only, says Frankl...
...that token, and according to the findings of Psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl of the University of Vienna, Americans really need to have their heads examined. Addressing the annual meeting of the Academy of Religion and Mental Health in Manhattan a fortnight ago, Dr. Frankl said that psychoanalysts are more and more frequently encountering a new neurosis characterized by loss of interest and lack of initiative, against which conventional psychoanalysis is ineffective...
...Time and again, the psychiatrist is consulted by patients who doubt that life has any meaning," said Dr. Frankl. "This condition I have called 'existential vacuum.'" And in a survey of his own students, Dr. Frankl found that while 40% of the Germans, Swiss and Austrians report existential vacuum, no less than 81% of the Americans say they have felt...
...Said Dr. Frankl, "We must not draw the conclusion that the existential vacuum is predominantly an American disease, but rather that it is apparently a concomitant of industrialization." It results, he thinks, from a loss of the instinctual security of the animal world on the one hand and of social tradition on the other. "At present, instincts do not tell man what he has to do, nor do traditions direct him toward what he ought to do; soon he will not even know what he wants to do, thus completely succumbing to conformism...
Visiting professor of Psychology at the Summer School. Frankl is the founder of the logotherapy school, a new approach to psychotherapy since the work of Freud, Adler, and Jung. He will speak on "Psychiatry and Man's Search for Meaning...