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Overview of the Theories of Austrian Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl

excused them, did not live to see them practised in the gas chambers of Auschwitz (Freud died in 1939). Dr Frankls father, mother,...

Viktor Frankl's Theories and Meaning in Macbeth and King Lear by William Shakespeare

In six pages this paper examines how life's meaning and human suffering's relationship is represented by these William Shakespeare...

The Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

in the Nazi concentration camps that has become a classic, and a testament to the human spirit. But it also shows what survival en...

Survival, 'Total Institutions' of Erving Goffman, and Human Development

In five pages various concepts regarding survival are considered in an examination of Erving Goffman's 'total institutions' applie...

Meaning and Morality in Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

of making sense out of life with the help of establishing significance to it. "Our generation is realistic, for we have come to k...

Human Nature and Ethical Relationships

should also make note of how "King Rat" calls attention to the limits of administration and the influence of the political realm w...

Logotherapy, Viktor Frankl and Man’s Search for Meaning

concentration camps that has become a classic, and a testament to the human spirit. But it also shows what survival entails; its n...

Logotherapy in Man's Search for Meaning

primary and not a secondary rationalization related to instinctual drives. This is a bold position. For instance, when someone has...

Frankl: Choice in Three Literary Works

This 3 page paper discusses Viktor Frankl's phrase"Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human fr...

Psychopathology and Religion

In fifteen pages this paper examines theories by Viktor Frankl and Albert Ellis in a consideration of whether or not religion repr...

Walker, Pearson, Frankl, Miller, and Fromm on Identity and Meaning

In 5 pages these 20th century writers and thinkers are examined regarding their interpretations of identity and life's meaning in ...

Author's Experiences Described in Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

In five pages this paper analyzes the Second World War concentration camp memoir by Viktor Frankl entitled Man's Search for Meanin...

Life, Meaning, and Meursault in Alfred Camus' The Stranger

In six pages this paper assesses whether or not Camus' character Meursault lived a meaningful life with criteria contained within ...

Great Minds Discuss Life's Meaning and Purpose

In five pages this paper examines how life's meaning and purpose are viewed by such great thinkers as Albert Camus, Friedrich Niet...

Man Philosophically Defined

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

Applying Carol Pearson's Archetypes to Literature

nature, such as a tree, or a flower. What Frankl noticed was that those survivors of the camps, such as he was, came out of the ca...

Life and the Search for Meaning

full potential in relationship to this peace and joy within themselves Powell, 1995; 3). In Mans Search for Meaning by Vikt...

Tragedy and Triumph: Viktor Frankl and Nelson Mandela

II. Although Frankl and his family were prominent community members at the time of the Holocaust, Frankl in fact was a noted psyc...

Viktor Frankl, William James, Carl Jung, and Sigmund Freud on Psychology and Religion

compelled to believe in them and that they cannot be proved or refuted. On the other hand, no one can be forced to disbelieve reli...

Forgiveness and Spiritual Healing

become physically ill and emotionally upset (Casarjian, 1992). Casarjian says that "[forgiveness] promises the release from the ho...

An Analysis of Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard

that are happening here in Austria." Shortly after the 50th anniversary of the Anschluss (German for the"union" -- Adolf Hitler oc...

Reviewing an Article on a Psychiatrist's Socio Legal Responsibilities

In two pages an article that appeared in the World Press Review in which the author discusses the social and legal responsibilitie...

Man's Search For Meaning by Victor Frankl

In five pages Frankl's text is used to explore what is meant by the phrase ' He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.' T...

Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

In five pages this paper examines this question 'For Frankl, is the human search for meaning necessarily a religious search?' with...

Life and its Meaning Questioned

contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. * Life is a tragedy fo...

Finding Meaning in Terror

in the face of danger (i.e., the approaching inspection) which was caused by it (Frankl, 1984, p. 85). Frankl relates that most ...

Choosing a Philosopher

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

Man's Search for Meaning and Existentialism

of their circumstances and wonder "how such a thing could happen" (Frankl, 2006). Nextly, the prisoners would descend into a state...

Free Will, Concentration Camps, and Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning

even immoral to those of us who have never experienced the horrors of the concentration camp. A few pages later, Frankl tells abou...

An Article Review on a Human Motivation Theory

of both his Preface paper and this new paper. Maslow states that his purpose is to: "formulate a positive theory of motivation w...