Man's Search For Meaning By Viktor E. Frankl

Although the title suggests a comical book, Oliver Sacks presents an entirely different look on the mentally challenged/disturbed. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a book that explains why a patient shows signs of losses, excesses, transports, and simplicity. Coincidentally, the book opens with its titling story, letting the reader explore the mind of an accomplish doctor who seems to have lost his true sight on life. In the following context, the seriousness of the stories and their interpretative breakdowns should only cause a better understanding of how the ever-so-questionable human mind truly works from a professional perspective put into simple words.

'He who has a why to live for can bear any how.' The words of Nietzsche begin to explain Frankl's tone throughout his book. Dr. Frankl uses his experiences in different Nazi concentration camps to explain his discovery of logotherapy. This discovery takes us back to World War II and the extreme suffering that took place in the Nazi concentration camps and outlines a detailed analysis of the prisoners psyche. An experience we gain from the first-hand memoirs of Dr. Frankl.

Shock, apathy, and disillusionment were three psychological stages that the prisoners of the Nazi concentration camps experienced. Ironically, it took an event of such tragedy and destruction to enable us to learn more about how the human mind responds to certain situations. Frankl’s methods for remaining positive can be used by every human being to give them a meaning in their lives regardless of what predicament or mental state they are in – it is in many ways like a phoenix risen from the

In Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl describes his revolutionary type of psychotherapy. He calls this therapy, logotherapy, from the Greek word "logos", which denotes meaning. This is centered on man's primary motivation of his search for meaning. To Frankl, finding meaning in life is a stronger force than any subconscious drive. He draws from his own experiences in a Nazi concentration camp to create and support this philosophy of man's existence.

In addition, another important quality that the doctors have is the ability to collaborate. Dr. House deduces that the excessive bravery, along with the recurrent hallucinations may be an indication of a problem in the amygdala. With the help of Dr. House, the diagnostician, Dr. Foreman, the neurosurgeon, and Dr. Wilson, the

Dr. Oliver Sacks wrote ‘The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat’ in 1985, it contains the bizarre, unique and extraordinary cases Sacks encountered as a neurologist. This book report is going to evaluate and include Dr. Sacks conclusions on the case studies recorded in ‘Part One: Losses’. ‘Losses’ covers 9 neurological disorders which are characterised by a ‘loss’ of some kind.

Sacks’ first anecdote example was when he said, “A friend of mine, Nick Younes, described to me how he had been fixated on the song ‘Love and Marriage,’ a tune written by James Van Heuson. A single hearing of this song-a Frank Sinatra rendition used as the theme song of the television show Married...with Children-was enough to hook Nick. ...It intervened with his schoolwork, his thinking, his peace of mind, his sleep.” (Sacks 1) By sharing this short story, Sacks is showing that it is not only him who is feeling these taxing affects. He proves this even more when he brings in his second anecdote. He incorporates it into his piece of writing when he begins to speak about how people with Tourette's syndrome are affected. Sacks says, “This was very striking with Carl Bernett, the surgeon with Tourette’s syndrome whom I described in An Anthropologist on Mars. ‘one cannot always find sense in these words,’ he said, ‘Often it is just the sound that attracts me. Any odd sound any odd name, may start repeating itself, get me going. I get hung up with a word for two or three months.’” (Sacks 2) Sacks is showing a man who lives with these “brainworms” at all times, thus, proving that these are negative and inconvenient

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl is filled to the brim with rhetorical devices from all three sections of the text. Particularly in his section about logotherapy, Frankl’s practice to find an individual’s meaning of life, he explores the three main meanings of life: accomplishment, love, and suffering. This area uses a plethora of comparison, such as parallelism and metaphor. Recurring themes are used to draw back to Frankl’s three life meanings, like word repetition and alliteration. Frankl’s use of rhetorical devices allows his audience to focus on their individual possibilities and incorporate his ideology into society.

Oliver Sacks is a very famous doctor of neurology as well as a writer. He spent most of his adult life treating patients. Oliver Sacks mostly concentrated on disorders of the brain and nervous system. In a lot of the cases that Sacks dealt with, there was nothing he was able to do to heal the patients. His goal was to find a way to live with and accept their condition as well as possible. Sacks enjoyed dealing with cases mostly about experiences of real people struggling to live with unusual conditions. That’s where he wanted to find ways to help these patients to the best of his and medical ability out there. Throughout his cases he studied he came across patients who had different

Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Silas Weir Mitchell were part of two worlds, one having to live and be treated for a nervous condition and the other having to study the conditions of nerves. Yet, in this particular moment in the late-19th century United States, one can detect a dialogue between doctor and patient in each of their short stories. That is exactly what is detected between Charlotte Perkins Gilman and S. Weir Mitchell. While both The Case of Dedlow and the Yellow Wallpaper use fiction to express themselves more thoroughly about mental health and science, The Case of Dedlow is more concerned with the aspect of scientific case study while the Yellow Wallpaper focuses on indicting science. This paper will compare and contrast the narratives of the aforementioned short stories and discuss the significance of their reception and how their audience understood them.

Man’s Search for Meaning is a memoir written by Dr. Viktor E. Frankl in 1946, recounting his experiences in Nazi concentration camps. As a result, logotherapy was born, based on what Frankl witnessed in the camps. Dr. Frankl based logotherapy on the idea that a man’s search for meaning is what will continue to motivate him to live throughout his life, specifically when that becomes taxing. This is founded on a few cardinal foundations, including that life will always have meaning, no matter how difficult it becomes, and that people have the freedom to find meaning in everything that they do and experience. Recalling his experiences during the Holocaust, Frankl was able to truly begin to understand the human mind.

Life was consumed by constant orders, labor, malnutrition, disease, and murder in the concentration camps. Yet somehow the human psyche in many individuals was able to endure throughout these imprisonments. Men and women were almost completely dehumanized during this genocide, but their psyche survived it. People had to find little things to keep themselves content and to nurture their psyche. “Humor was another of the soul’s weapons in the fight for self-preservation” (63). Humor allows a person to escape a situation and rise above it, even if only for a short time. Humor can never be taken away from anyone because it is naturally within us. Humor within the concentration camps allowed people, for even a split second, to feel like they

From his book "Man's Search for Meaning", Victor Frankl has proven from overcoming one of the most daunting, horrendous human experiences that he is not only very intelligent, but has one of the strongest sets of a heart and mind this world has ever seen. What's most incredible to me is that he not only made it through the center of the deadliest world war and endured the highest form of human mental and physical suffering, he had the strength and will to write about it. What I really enjoyed the most about Frankl in his story was his unique, first person view of the world around him and his efforts to relay the realities of that world in the most objective way possible. It's as if he knew he would one day have to deliver his experience to the world so he made a choice to use his intellect and imagination from the start of his experiences. I can't even begin to imagine what he and other holocaust survivors endured, even more so choosing to re-live every second of those memories after the experience by writing a book about them. It seems, from his writings, he made the difficult decision to write the book because of his concluding that having an account to his experiences for the people of the world to look upon and learn from was more important than the intense mental strife the process of writing the book would have on him. For that I greatly respect this author and educator for if it weren't for his strength we would not have the great, positive and

Viktor Frankl is a philosopher, but more importantly an incredible individual who survived the Holocaust under the Nazi regime. In his book Man’s Search For Meaning, he detailed life in the Nazi death camps and elaborated on people’s states of mind while inside the camp. He made exclaimed that there were three different ways to discover the unique meaning of one’s life: achieving or accomplishing something, experiencing a virtue like love, and surviving and/or overcoming suffering. The search for meaning that is discovered through these three modes is vital to an individual’s life. Doing a deed is the first step in identifying the distinct meaning of one’s life according to Frankl.

In September of 1942, Viktor Frankl was arrested in Vienna and taken to one of the many Nazi death camps. Frankl was working on a manuscript which was confiscated from him in a move to Auschwitz. In this manuscript entitled, The Doctor and the Soul, Frankl had began his work on a theory he would later call logotherapy. The term logotherapy is derived from the Greek word logos, which means meaning. According to logotherapy, the striving to find a meaning in one’s life is the primary motivational force in man (Frankl 121). Frankl’s theory and therapy generated and grew through his experiences in the concentration camps.