Logotherapy

The book “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl is a story following Viktor, a psychiatrist, during his time spent in Jewish concentration camps back during WWII. He explains his experiences in a psychological way, explaining feelings and thoughts prisoners had while being held captive. It’s a good insight into the human mind and why life has meaning. The story starts with Viktor explaining the transport and entrance to the camp. Prisoners at the camp were shown they were powerless right from

As many individuals know the most common types of depression and what symptoms occurs. However, every kind of depression has a meaning or purpose of why it happen at a certain period of life. The topic I will be discussing is does finding purpose help in recovery for disorders like depression and how will it help during the process. People assumes that when someone feels worthlessness in life assumes it is just depression. There is more than one type of depression and the actual term for it is existential

The Humanistic-Existential Perspective The humanistic-existential perspective is both a reaction to and an outgrowth of the psychodynamic perspective. These thinkers refer to psychodynamic theory as inadequate, many were repulsed with its tendency to break down the "whole" person into discrete components, and, the idea of adapting to one's society, however questionable its values. Most importantly, they disagree that human action is beyond the individuals control, in fact they believe that

Introduction Criminologist and politicians have debated the effectiveness of correctional rehabilitation programs since the 1970’s when criminal justice scholars and policy makers throughout the United States embraced Robert Martinson’s credo of “nothing works” (Shrum, 2004). Recidivism, the rate at which released offenders return to jail or prison, has become the most accepted outcome measure in corrections. The public's desire to reduce the economic and social costs associated with crime and incarceration

neurologist. He is praised for his book, Man’s Search For Meaning, a story that depicts Frankl’s viewpoint during the Holocaust. The narrative illustrates Victor’s perspective and his coping techniques during this time. Frankl also mentions his theory of Logotherapy. A technique that he uses to help people find meaning with their life. Reaction My reaction to this book can be summarized into two words: mind-blowing. I feel this every time I read or watch anything that has to do with the Holocaust.I sympathized

The Experience Though famous psychologists such as Freud claim that early childhood shapes and molds who a person will become the person I interviewed did not have his life changing experience until his mid twenties. This is past the years of infancy, early, middle and late childhood even adolescence. He was a full fledged textbook adult when he experienced a pivotal moment in his life. Certain theories of personality claim that personality is stable, even temperament in infancy can help determine

As previously mentioned, luck was not the only basis for survival; instinct, too, played a role. The thread of logic following this concept is quite simple. Jews who instinctively knew that it was in their best interest to leave the area of conflict might have escaped the holocaust, and would, therefore, have a greater chance of survival. However, some Jews did not possess this instinct and held a different logic which persuaded them to stay. For some, the possibility of Jews being exterminated

There are so many depths to a human's personality traits, characteristics, and identity. These depths create an individualized pathway for the life the human lives. This could mean that their attitude shapes their life or their personality takes full swing and creates a beautiful minded person. Either way, a humans depths of individuality creates a person's human condition. The human condition derives from the key events, situations, and characteristics that occur in a human's life. This creates

Through both works, it is evident that having to preserve through high levels of suffering will make overcoming future events in life, like developing logotherapy and having a child graduate from medical school, more fulfilling and rewarding had that previous suffering not occurred. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl reveals how one should look externally to suffering and actively look towards the

The study addressed the long debated topic of the role and effectiveness of the correctional institutions, namely prisons, to punish and rehabilitate the law offenders. Given the rates of recidivism – instances when previously imprisoned people turn back to crime (National Institute of Justice, 2014) - the authors point at the failures of the correctional system as more than 75 percent of the ex-prisoners eventually relapse into criminal behavior (Haney, Banks, & Zimbardo, 1973). According to the