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by: Viktor E. Frankl
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8914
EAN: 9780394743172
ISBN: 0394743172
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: October 12, 1986
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: October 12, 1986
Sales Rank: 163002
Studio: Vintage
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Emphasizing spiritual values and the quest for meaning in life in its approach to the neurotic behavior, by the founder of logotherapy.
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Rating: - The brilliant Dr. Frankl
This is a wonderful book that describes the existentialist process and
thoughts of a brilliant man. It is a very different school of thought
than more recent schools of thought such as cognitive-behavioral psychology. Dr. Frankl discusses meaning of life, suffering, and how one
choose one's attitude toward suffering to alleviate it. Of course, who
could be a more experienced speaker of this message than Dr. Frankl who endured being in a concentration camp during World ... Read More
Rating: - Some of the most important principles in my life
Some of the most important principles in my life can be found in Dr. Viktor Frankl's The Doctor and the Soul. Without them, I along with my efforts to do good in the world would be lost in cynicism and depression. The book is an answer to Ecclesiastes' refrain, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." The book is an answer of hope.
I have pitied certain people to the point of questioning how they could endure life. I think of the boy whose alcoholic father had poured gasoline over him while ... Read More
Rating: - Existential concerns
Existential frustration results in neurotic symptoms. Logotherapy is a specific therapy. Life is a task. Logotherapy is education toward responsibility. Psychoanalysis regards neurosis as limitation.
Individual psychology fits only a particular kind of human being. We postulate a psychotherapy to include the spiritual element. Logotherapy is intended to supplement psychotherapy. Responsibility implies a sense of obligation. An affirmative attitude toward life is crucial.
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Rating: - deneurotization of humanity
Frankl's logotherapy enables people to once again discover the quality of life. Frankl believes that the first two schools of Viennese psychotherapy (Freud and Adler), which he calls the depth psychology, must be complimented the logotherapy - the height psychology. His therapy explores man's future instead of his past. Summarizing the Freudian concept as the will to pleasure and the Adlerian concept as the will to power, Frankl points out that man's basic motivation in life is neither pleasure nor power. ... Read More
Rating: - A shining light in the darkness of the moral relativsm.
Adler thought all human motivation was based on the will to power, manifesting itself in men's desires to get rich and to exercise dominion and women's desire to marry such men. Freud thought all human motivation was based on the will to sex, that is to say the will to procreate the manifestations of which we see in our sex obsessed society. Frankl shows that the misplacement of these desires in the center of human life causes all of the psychological turmoil under which our society suffers. He shows ... Read More
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