I can’t think of anyone I wouldn’t recommend it to. There is more packed into this slim volume than in many books twice as long and it is aīook to read and reread. Of the main principles of Stoicism as well, and Viktor Frankl put that into practice better than most. Takeaways was that only you are responsible for how you think and act, no matter what circumstances, and this cannot be taken from you. While toxic positivity is designed to pretend like negative experiences or unpleasant emotions simply do. My son Max underlined this same passage in his copy of the book. Tragic optimism is situated in a position that is the polar opposite of toxic positivity. Pleasure because they had given up on any idea of a future-was a sure sign. Refusing to get up and work and then smoking their cigarettes instead of saving them to trade for a bowl of soup-opting for immediate
How they knew that a prisoner in the camp would die soon. One of the many anecdotes that caught my attention was the one in which Frankl describes He ties all three parts together using examples from his experiences in the concentration camps to illustrate hisįrankl maintains that humans need something to strive for and that if they don’t haveĪnything, there might be an inner void, an existential vacuum that is far worse for the psyche than if one is struggling to reach something which is meaningful to oneself. Retain meaning in life despite tragedy and suffering that one cannot change.
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Logotherapy is “meaning-centered psychiatry,” and the tragic optimism refers to how to And in comparison to what he went through, most of our “problems” are mere inconveniences. Literally out of excuses and that the only person responsible for your life is you. Tough because while reading this book, there comes this realization that you are No matter how often you read about this, it’s still hard to believe that humans can behave this way towards other human beings.
Tough because all accounts of life in concentration camps are shocking and emotionally In document (eBook) Viktor Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning (Psychology, Psychotherapy, Philosophy)-o (-98) Dedicated to the memory of Edith Weisskopf-Joelson, whose pioneering efforts in logotherapy in the United States began as early as 1955 and whose contributions to the field have been invaluable. Easy because it’s short (this edition is only 154 pages long) and clearly
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