Frankl

Viktor Frankl was, in a sense, a trifecta of a man; a psychiatrist, psychologist and a philosopher. A profound humanist, his originality facilitated his approach to the raw human soul. His survivals through his personal experience in a Nazi concentration camp in the Holocaust greatly influenced and shaped his discovery of logotherapy; a therapeutic approach onto the ‘pre-reflective ontological self-understanding’, this aspect is acquired through all human beings. During Frankl’s time in the Nazi

Introduction The purpose of this reaction paper is to introduce the reader to my early perceptions of my own personal style and theory of counseling. At this early stage in my training, I would attest to the fact that this is not as easy as it may sound, particularly when I am still being acquainted with the multitude of counseling theories and style frameworks since the inception of the counseling field. That said, since it is a necessity of this paper as required by this course in Introduction

factual, historical information. Speaking of personal experiences, I took the time to read a book about a man named Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997).¹ He was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. The book is called “Man’s Search for Meaning”, and I find it to be a truthful collection of anecdotes and philosophies. For

point of view, the book tells of Dr. Frankl’s experiences while being held captive in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. Frankl writes about the three psychological reactions which the inmates of the camp experienced which includes the period following admission to the camps, the period of entrenchment, and the period after being released from the camp. Dr. Frankl has multiple points he is trying to prove in the book, one is when he ultimately comes up with the idea that “To live is to suffer;

In Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, the author describes his experiences of surviving the Holocaust. But his novel varies from other stories, he presents the mental side consequences prisoners faced. He explained, “Life in a concentration camp tore open the human soul and expose it depths,”(Frankl 87). Prisoners like himself needed hope to survive, which was hard to do. Frankl’s biggest contribution is his theory humans have the power to control their emotions and chose how they react.

World War and who was thus threatened by the policy of the ‘final solution’ but managed to stay alive.” (Kellermann, Natan P.F., 2009) Survivor and Psychologist Viktor Frankl often stops throughout his novel, attempting to save the reader from the horror. “ But mercifully I do not need to describe the events which followed.” (Frankl, Viktor E., 1959, Page 31) “It is easy for the outsider to get the wrong conception of camp life, a conception ingled with sentiment and pity. Little does he know of the

‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ by Viktor Frankl I have a better sense of relationships. After reading ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ I have a better insight of how important relationships are in your life. It is also important to have positive relationships in your life. If you are surrounded by negative relationships then it has a negative effect on your life. In this book it shows the effects of positive and negative relationship and the different effects they have. Frankl was surrounded by people who had

written by Viktor E. Frankl. Frankl is a psychiatrist and wrote a memoir on his life in the Holocaust work camps. Frankl was in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his family and pregnant wife perished. Surviving the Holocaust was truly an incredible journey. Throughout the book the main theme was that humans cannot avoid suffering, but we can choose how we respond to it. We can cope with our suffering, find meaning within it, and we can move forward. Frankl said, “Everything can

Man’s Search for Meaning is a sentimental memoir about the struggles of a psychologist during the holocaust as a victim, and how he eventually developed logotherapy, a form of therapy, from his observations. The first portion of the memoir affected me the most because his first time doing even the basic activities like bathing were filled with fear and terror. Frankl’s use of imagery to describe his fear and the events that occurred lets the readers sympathize with the victims. The facts he stated

In his description on page six, Frankl reveals that after being moved from concentration camp to concentration camp, it had forced the best of people to become self-interested in a fight for their own survival. Scruples in this quote means that prisoners had forfeited their moral conscience and did not hesitate to commit acts that could cause harm to others. Frankl then went on to disclose, "They were prepared to use every means, honest and otherwise, even brutal force, theft, and betrayal of their