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Viktor Frankl published “Man’s Search for Meaning“ in 1945. It inspired millions of people to identify their attitude towards life. Frankl lived through the horrors of the Holocaust, a prisoner in Auschwitz and Dachau.
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Mar 26, 2013 · For Frankl, meaning came from three possible sources: purposeful work, love, and courage in the face of difficulty. In examining the “intensification of inner life” that helped prisoners stay alive, he considers the transcendental power of love:
- 3.1 Will to Meaning
- 3.3 Freedom of Will and Responsibility to Act on It
- 3.6 Conscience: What Is “Right”? What Is “Wrong”?
- 3.8 Existential Analysis
- 3.8.1 Unfolding the Nature of Our Personal Being
- 3.9 The Three Dimensions of Human Existence
- 3.10.1 A Matter of Clean Language: Definitions of Religion, Religiousness, Spirituality, Mind, and Existential
- 3.10.1.1 Geist, Mind, Spirit, and Spirituality
- 3.10.1.2 Existential
- 3.10.1.3 Religion
- Religiousness
- 3.11.1 Religion and Spirituality
- 3.12 Addressing Spirituality in the Workplace
- 3.12.2 Critical Considerations
- 3.13 Implications of Frankl’s Three-Dimensional Approach for Today’s Workplaces
Each individual is endowed with a will to meaning (Frankl 1967). All humans are unique with an entity of body, mind, and spirit. We all go through unique situations and are constantly looking to find meaning. We are free to do this at all times in response to certain demands. The search for meaning is the primary motivation of humans. This will can...
Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon, whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. (V. Frankl) The individual freed...
Meanings are discovered by man’s conscience. This individual conscience is, as history and everyday situations have proved over and over again, creative and some “greater power” beyond current values. Frankl suggests that meanings are transsubjective, an intuitive capacity of man to find “what is right.” If man is not to contradict his own humannes...
It has been shown repeatedly, that a return to the essential reason for human existence, being responsible as the basis of human existence, is necessary. So we will understand, that, around the pivot of logotherapy, psychotherapy must make a turn towards an existential analysis as an analysis of being human towards being responsible. (Viktor E. Fr...
Existential analysis helps us to reflect on and clarify in order to understand the con-text of the problems and challenges we face as human beings, emphasizing the “unfolding” nature of our awareness of being and what it is to exist (Society for Existential Analysis): What does it mean to be alive? What are the possibilities that my life presents t...
Frankl coined his approach‚ logotherapy, from the Greek word logos, which can mean study, word, spirit, God, or meaning. Frankl uses the division between the physical, psychical, and the “noetic,” defined as his dimensional ontology concept. In doing so, his concept integrates a medical, psychotherapeutic, and philosophi-cal understanding of the hu...
Literature and research are providing various terms, concepts, and approaches on the complex topics of spirituality, religion, “Geist,” spirit, and transcendence and how these are reflected in human nature and specifically in well-being and life satisfaction.
Until today, different cultures have a different understanding of “mind.” These vari-ous concepts have been discussed for ages. Until today, philosophy, science, psy-chology, and various religious concepts are defining the mind, understanding it in terms of perception, thinking, judgment, intelligence, memory, subjective aware-ness, and intentional...
How does human nature, the individual person in their diverse environments, tradi-tions, and cultures, with their complex values and orientations in time and space, reflect on basic issues of their respective lives, and how do these complex factors influence their mind-set, their health, their well-being, and their life satisfaction? Existential is...
Religion has become one of the core issues of twenty-first century in research, health care, and societal and social life, discussing its influence on well-being and meaning in life. The term encompasses: A community, sharing Specific traditions, rituals, and texts (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism a. o.)
Institutional religious afiliation and beyond that Individual lifestyle integrating the respective religion into everyday life The Virtues in Action Signature Strengths define “religiousness” as “having coherent beliefs about the higher purpose and meaning of the universe and knowing where one fits within the larger scheme.” The German language VIA...
Initially closely linked to each other, in the late twentieth century, spirituality and religion became disconnected from each other. Together with declining member-ship in religious institutions, spirituality became more and more oriented on subjective experience of developing the “true self,” potentially in combination with reference to Eastern s...
In the very end, Viktor Frankl is providing for a very factual approach for defining the three dimensions inherent to each individual in their quest for spirituality. Frankl’s approach is putting this quest on its feet by defining a person’s spirituality as a matter of Sein, independent of whatever specific approaches. Until today, all discussions ...
This is the space, where critical considerations are expressed by the author: The human search for meaning and purpose in life is in danger of being exploited. Haensel (2012) is arguing that spirituality “cannot be bought or sold.” And he is also warning about the potential ego-inflation of developing nothing but the self- capacities and meditation...
The spiritual core of a person is seen as a potential source of health and strength. This core is incorruptible and irreducible and has its own dignity beyond assess-ment, judgment, and interpretation by others. Today’s human resource experts are investigating the motives and drivers of the younger “Generation Why?”, their aspirations toward work a...
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these slender threads of a broken life into a firm pattern of meaning and responsibility is the object and challenge of logo-therapy, which is Dr. Frankl's own version of modern existential analysis. In this book, Dr. Frankl explains the experience which led to his discovery of logotherapy. As a long-
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Frankl formulated the basis of his existential approach to psychological practice before World War II (WWII). However, his experiences in the concentration camps confirmed his view that it is through a search for meaning and purpose in life that individuals can endure hardship and suffering.
- R. Joseph Rodríguez
Aug 31, 2021 · The existential psychiatrist Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) lived an extraordinary life. He witnessed and experienced acts of anti-Semitism, persecution, brutality, physical abuse, malnutrition, and...
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Frankl and his team often helped depressed and suicidal prisoners with logotherapeutic techniques that aimed at assisting them in finding meaning and reasons to live despite their living conditions (Frankl, 2000). Frankl found that pursuing activities for the service of others allowed him to transcend the suffering of his environment.
