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    techniques for a person to use to find meaning in his or her life. It is written in an autobiographical style by psychiatrist, Viktor Frankl. He discusses many specific examples from his imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp, along with his professional knowledge to offer a method for discovering personal fulfillment and a sense of meaning in life. With descriptive language, Frankl creates a vivid image of this horrible ordeal. He begins the book by describing his reactions and observations at the outset

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    Why did I survive? Why did I massacre thousands of innocent people? How could this have happened? It was just a nightmare none of this can be real. It’s over and done with let’s just get on with our lives already. These are some of the thoughts I believe both the Nazi’s and prisoners had after the holocaust was over. Some people were guilt-ridden by their actions and the harsh decisions they had to make between their survival and the survival of someone else. Other took more of a sociopathic and

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    Man’s search for meaning is written from Dr. Viktor E. Frankl’s 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

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    Man's Search For Meaning

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    Summary Man's Search for Meaning, written by Viktor Frankl, is a book about agony, desolation, suffering, but that's not all that it is about; it is also about coping with these problems. Viktor Frankl transitions from an anecdote about pain to some far more prolific: how he was able to survive the holocaust and his new method to cope with pain and suffering. Written on the basis of first-hand observations of the lives of fellow inmates in Nazi concentration camps, the work triumphs in capturing

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    Many arguments were made in Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning about the term “suffering” and how us as individuals respond to others suffering. Frankl says that if suffering has no meaning, then there is no reason to live at all. Simone Weil incorporates this in her book An Anthology by arguing that it is our obligation as human beings to aid to ones suffering. Frankl and Weil both have the same idea in that they both look at people who are suffering. Seeing what each side argues will help

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    March 26, 1905 marked the birth of Viktor Frankl in Vienna. He was a son to Gabriel Frankl and Elsa Frankl from Marovia. He was the second born in a family of three and wanted to become a physician when he grew up. He was turned to study psychology by his liking for people. He met Freud in 1925 on his way to graduating and published an article “Psychotherapy and Weltanschauung”, which was followed by the use of the term “logo therapy” in a public lecture the following year. This led to his refining

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    Man's Search For Meaning

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    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.

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    Man's Search For Meaning

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    Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning describes life in a concentration camp and the mental and emotional effects that come with it. "Life in a concentration camp tore open the human soul and exposed it depths" (87). This essay details some of the specific themes of Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. Two of the main themes in this book are love and hope. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning is a book describing the trials of Viktor Frankl and his life in a Nazi concentration camp

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    Reflection of “Man’s Search for Meaning,” by Viktor Frankl John R. Miller Edinboro University   Reflection of “Man’s Search for Meaning,” by Viktor Frankl Viktor Frankl (2006), describes the purpose of a man’s journey of survival as he lives in four concentration camps within a 3-year period and having the journey continue after being liberated. Frankl was a psychiatrist and neurologist who worked in Rothschild Hospital during 1940, which at the time was one of the few hospitals to allow Jews to

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    Vienna, Austria, Viktor Frankl started showing interest in psychology at a young age. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna, specializing in neurology and psychiatry, with a deep focus on suicide and depression. When he first started to study these areas, Frankl’s influences came from two of the most well known psychologist’s Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler. Later, however, Frankl diverged from their teachings to study his own theories. When World War II began, Viktor Frankl was the director

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