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Freedom to or for what? In the opinion of Viennese Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, a man's "will to meaning" is more basic than the Freudian will to pleasure. To ignore his concern with value is to fail to do justice to "the humanness of man." As Freudian analysis aims to liberate the mature sexual and aggressive drives, so Frankl's treatment (called logotherapy) seeks to free man's spiritual unconscious so that he can realize his innate need to find meaning in life...
Other therapists are using the concept of altered states of consciousness that became familiar through the drug culture. Some are even using drugs. One of the best known of these researchers, Psychiatrist Stanislav Grof of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, is experimenting with LSD for dying patients. He has found that they progress through several stages. At the last they have mystical experiences that Grof recognizes as similar to those "described for millennia in various temple mysteries, initiation rites and occult religions." Such experiences, Grof concludes, are intrinsic to human nature and "suggest the possibility of bridging the gap between...
Frantz Fanon was born an outsider. He lived on the cusp of history, ground between implacable opposites. A black man from Martinique, Fanon grew up in the intensely French and white-oriented prewar culture of that island. Making it there, he went to France to train as a psychiatrist with whites as his patients. Then, in 1953, he moved to Algeria to direct a mental hospital crowded with North African Moslems...
...been deeply influenced by Sartre, who (in Anti-Semite and Jew) gave Hegel's master-slave analysis labyrinthine new twists. Hegel was not a slave, however, nor Sartre a Jew. But Fanon was black. His most significant work came out of his sudden realization, as a black psychiatrist in an Algerian mental hospital, that the fact of French colonial domination caused unique and grave psychic disorders in the objects of oppression, Fanon's Moslem patients...
...psychiatrist, Dr. Chester M. Pierce '48, said that television is a crucial factor in mass media's casting blacks in inferior roles...