Word: frankl
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Viktor Emil Frankl, professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Vienna, will speak today at 4 p.m. at Burr Hall B in the final talk in the Thursday Afternoon Lecture Series...
Logotherapy and the concept of the "will to meaning" is a direct contradiction to the mental health orientation which pleads for tension reduction, according to Frankl. He points out that Logotherapy "reorients the patient toward the meaning he has to fulfill in life, and makes him aware of those values which should be actualized by him, and can only be actualized by him alone." Helping a patient find the meaning in his life is not the equivalent of telling him all the answers...
...against the idea of 'peace of mind' at any cost," Frankl says. "In as much as man's will to meaning (which is emphasized and stimulated by Logotherapy both in theory and in practice) may sometimes arouse inner tension, there is a certain 'restlessness of the heart' which does not cease until man has fulfilled the meaning of his life. Thus, 'peace of mind' is a result or side-effect of having carried out one's task rather than an end in itself. The same is true for self-actualization which must not become an aim and is missed...
...Frankl emphasizes that the meaning of life is different from man to man and can only be answered by man himself. Man answers it by his existential commitment and not by verbalizing--i.e., "what is the meaning of my life is of decision rather than cognition." The most important aspect of his according to Frankl is that "no one can be spared the responsibility of responding to this question...
...many books that Dr. Frankl has written concerning his theory, only two--The Doctor and the Soul and From Death Camp to Existentialism--have been translated into English