Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian neurologist, psychologist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. Logotherapy is part of existential and humanistic psychology theories. Logotherapy was promoted as the third school of Viennese Psychotherapy, after those established by Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler. Frankl published 39 books. The autobiographical Man's Search for Meaning, a best-selling book, is based on his experiences in various Nazi concentration camps.
Just finished reading this for the second time in about 6 months. If this wasn't a library book, I'd have highlighted about %75 of it. I imagine that's what I'll do as soon I receive my own copy in the mail and read it a 3rd time. Not very technical, so you really do not have to be well versed in psychology, only the desire for introspection. I can only speak for myself, but it's not a desire, but a need. If you feel the same way, you need to read this book.
鈥濲au gird臈jome, kaip smarkiai organizmo imunitetas priklauso nuo afekt懦 b奴senos, taigi ir nuo toki懦 dalyk懦 kaip d啪iugesys ar prisl臈gtumas viltims nei拧sipild啪ius. Tod臈l visi拧kai pagr寞stai galime priimti prielaid膮, kad nusivylimas nei拧sipild啪ius sapno prana拧ystei staiga pakirto gyvybines kalinio organizmo galias ir 拧is pasidav臈 jau sn奴duriuojan膷iai infekcijai. Tok寞 po啪i奴r寞 patvirtina i拧samesni steb臈jimai, apie kuriuos kart膮 papasakojo vienas stovyklos gydytojas: jo stovyklos kaliniai puosel臈jo vilt寞 sutikti 1944 m. Kal臈das namie. Kal臈dos art臈jo, o laikra拧膷i懦 啪inios neteik臈 kaliniams joki懦 vil膷i懦. Kas atsitiko? Savait臋 tarp Kal臈d懦 ir Nauj懦j懦 met懦 拧ioje stovykloje masi拧kai mir臈 kaliniai, ir to ne寞manoma buvo paai拧kinti jokiomis aplinkyb臈mis 鈥� nei pasikeitusiais orais, nei pasunk臈jusiomis darbo s膮lygomis, nei infekcini懦 lig懦 protr奴kiu. Ai拧ku, kad psichoterapijos bandymas koncentracijos stovykloje gal臈jo b奴ti s臈kmingas tik tokiu atveju, jei jis b奴davo nukreipiamas 寞 lemiam膮 dvasin臈s atramos moment膮 鈥� tiksl膮 ateityje, 寞 gyvenimo sub specie futuri, ateities po啪i奴riu, b奴tinyb臋. Da啪nai vien膮 ar kit膮 kalin寞 nesunkiai pavykdavo padr膮sinti, orientuojant 寞 ateit寞. Kart膮 kalbant su dviem stovyklos kaliniais, i拧 nevilties ketinusiais nusi啪udyti, atsiskleid臈 tokia paralel臈: abu buvo u啪vald臋s poj奴tis, kad jiems n臈ra ko laukti i拧 gyvenimo. Tod臈l reik臈jo atlikti an膮 koperniki拧k膮 pos奴k寞, apie kur寞 jau kalb臈jome sakydami, kad negalima klausti apie gyvenimo prasm臋, prie拧ingai, reikia atsakyti 寞 konkre膷ius gyvenimo klausimus, atsakyti u啪 savo gyvenim膮. I拧ties netrukus paai拧k臈jo: nors abiem kaliniams atrod臈, kad n臈ra ko laukti i拧 gyvenimo, j懦 pa膷i懦 lauk臈 gyvenimas su visi拧kai konkre膷iais u啪daviniais. Paai拧k臈jo, kad vienas j懦 anks膷iau leido geografijos knyg懦 serij膮, kuri dar nebuvo baigta; kitas u啪sienyje tur臈jo neapsakomai j寞 mylin膷i膮 dukr膮. Vieno lauk臈 darbas, kito 鈥� 啪mogus. Taigi abudu buvo savaip ypatingi ir nepakartojami, o kaip tik tai nepaisant kan膷ios suteikia bes膮lygi拧k膮 prasm臋 gyvenimui. Vienas savo moksliniu darbu buvo toks pat nepakei膷iamas, kaip kito niekas negal臈jo atstoti vaiko meilei.
I拧laisvintam kaliniui irgi reikia psichologin臈s pagalbos. Kaip tik i拧laisvinimas, staigus paleidimas, i拧vadavimas nuo psichinio kr奴vio irgi sukelia gr臈sm臋 psichologiniu po啪i奴riu. Susiduriame su psichiniu kesonin臈s ligos analogu. Taigi aptardami stovyklos kalinio psichologijos apmatus pasiekiame tre膷i膮j膮 jos faz臋. Kalinio reakcij膮 寞 paleidim膮 galime trumpai nusakyti taip: prad啪ioje viskas jam atrodo tarsi gra啪us sapnas, jis dar nedr寞sta patik臈ti. Juk da啪nai sapnuodavo i拧laisvinim膮: jis gr寞啪ta namo, apkabina 啪mon膮, sveikinasi su draugais, s臈da prie stalo ir pradeda pasakoti apie savo i拧gyvenimus, apie tai, kaip ilg臈josi 拧ios akimirkos ir kaip da啪nai j膮 sapnuodavo, kol ji tapo tikrove. Staiga nuaidi trys 拧vilpuko signalai, raginantys keltis, ir i拧pl臈拧ia j寞 i拧 sapno, kuris tik simuliavo laisv臋, tik pasi拧aip臈 i拧 jo. Vis d臈lto kart膮 tai, ko kalinys ilg臈josi ir apie k膮 svajojo, virsta tikra tikrove. Ta膷iau i拧laisvintasis vis dar negali atsikratyti savoti拧ko depersonalizacijos poj奴膷io. Dar negali, nes nebemoka, i拧 tikr懦j懦 d啪iaugtis gyvenimu, 鈥� pirma v臈l turi i拧mokti juo d啪iaugtis. Pirm膮 laisv臈s dien膮 dabartis jam atrodo tarsi gra啪us sapnas, o ilgainiui praeitis pasirodys tarsi baisus sapnas. Tada pats negal臈s suvokti, kaip 寞steng臈 i拧gyventi 寞kalinimo metus. J寞 u啪valdys nenusakomas jausmas, suvokimas, kad po vis懦 i拧gyvenim懦 ir kan膷i懦 nieko n臈ra pasaulyje, ko reik臈t懦 bijoti, 鈥� i拧skyrus sav膮j寞 Diev膮. Tik臈ti juo ne vienas v臈l i拧moko koncentracijos stovykloje 鈥� kaip tik stovykla i拧mok臈 tik臈ti.鈥�
The book in a nutshell: Life always has meaning. As so many have over the decades, I found this book deeply inspiring, thought-provoking, and reassuring. The (translated-from-German) language is dense and the subject is often technical, but I found it extremely readable and enjoyable.
I've never had a keen interest in psychology... until I read Viktor Frankl. This book is a more in-depth discussion of logotherapy than the introductory one given in Man's Search for Meaning. Frankl's insights complement and correct other approaches to psychotherapy (psychoanalysis and behaviorism) that tend to objectify human beings and reduce their behavior and thinking to external "causes" or internal psychological "drives" rather than "reasons". He gives the human soul it's rightfully prominent place in psychology.
Un libro que confirma que Viktor Frankl es un sabio, un hombre que busca la Verdad y la sabe transmitir. Los primeros art铆culos son m谩s costosos de leer por el uso de algunos tecnicismos y jerga psiqui谩trica pero uno disfruta profundamente al comprobar c贸mo Viktor Frankl se aproxima al misterio del hombre desde la psiquiatr铆a, la filosof铆a y la psicolog铆a de una manera sumamente enriquecedora. Un buen libro para los que buscan el sentido de la vida
I really loved this book titled 'The Doctor & the Soul' by Dr. Viktor E. Frankl. All of the author's books are motivating & excellent soul curry. This book indeed is his magnum opus even though we mainly remember Viktor E. Frankl as the author of 'Man's Search For Meaning'. Psychologists & Philosophers consider this book, that is 'The Doctor & the Soul' to be Frankl's most widely acclaimed book compared to 'Man's Search For Meaning' & a must to read for all those interested in Logotherapy. This book centers on philosophical & epistemological topics including euthanasia & suicide. The book also analyzes certain common psychological & psychiatric ailments which can be benefited by Logotherapy like OCD, Clinical Depression, Hyper-reflection & insomnia among others. The book discusses many themes in the light of Logotherapy which are very useful & inspiration to read. The examples & testimonials mentioned in the book regarding especially the ailment of OCD is very much focused upon. The testimonials are convincing & very interesting to read. Psychologists & Logotherapy enthusiasts will find this book a great help to their studies. I had certain issues with this book regarding certain views related to suicide, euthanasia & monogamy, but otherwise I really enjoyed the book. I'm sure even psychiatric patients as well as the care-givers of such patients will find this book an inspirational & comforting read. Dr. Viktor E. Frankl is indeed a very convincing man. De-reflection & Paradoxical Intention are discussed in great depth & in an interactive manner which readers will find very revealing. I give 'The Doctor & the Soul' 4 stars.
A very powerful book. It got draggy towards the end as the author discussed the many case studies proving the effectiveness of logotherapy, but the first part of the book, especially its discussions on existential angst and the meaning of life, is pure gold. The concept of "filling out the circle you have, rather than boundless ambition in extending the radius of that circle" is a powerful and humbling idea that stays with you. Highly recommended.
Franklis labai 寞tikinamai apra拧o, kad logoterapijos pagrindus tur臈t懦 i拧manyti vis懦 sri膷i懦 gydytojai. I拧 ties懦, kas i拧 to, kad gydytojas operuodamas i拧gelbsti 啪mogaus gyvyb臋, o 拧is, lik臋s suluo拧intu, nebemato prasm臈s gyventi ir renkasi savi啪udyb臋? Franklis 寞tikina kiekvienu savo sakiniu ir 寞kvepia taikyti dalykus savo pa膷ios gyvenime. Pavyzd啪iui, paradoksaliosios intensijos metod膮, kuris trumpai nusakomas taip: ,,fobijos kamuojamas pacientas patiria gydom膮j寞 poveik寞 pam臈gin臋s panor臈ti to, ko da啪niausiai bijo. 艩itaip jo baim臈 galiausiai netenka peno鈥�, a拧 i拧band啪iau ir ka啪kokiu laipsniu tas suveik臈. Tikrai darboholikam rekomenduo膷iau 拧i膮 knyg膮, joje gra啪iai perteikiama mintis, kad darbingumas - dar ne viskas, jis n臈ra nei pakankamas, nei b奴tinas pagrindas, kad pripildytum gyvenim膮 prasm臈s. 艩iaip kiekvienas turb奴t atrast懦 ka啪kiek i拧minties 拧ioje knygoje, kuri膮 prisitaikyt懦 kasdienyb臈je. Labai 寞dom奴s Franklio pavyzd啪iai i拧 jo bei koleg懦 klinikin臈s praktikos. Ko man 拧iek tiek pritr奴ko, tai krislelio kriti拧kumo savo po啪i奴riui, technikoms ir sau - tas visada papildomo profesionalumo suteikia bet kokiam veikalui.
Should be required reading for all doctors. Touches upon the emotional aspects that disease and suffering inevitably touch upon for patients. How can and should doctors provide patients with hope, strength and meaning as they face their conditions. I learned a lot from reading this.
Interesting and just after freud so a bit dated. Frankel takes an interesting approach to thinking through that which surpasses the ID. We can not be all about just us. Such makes the truly amazing that we do superficial. There is so much more than a me me me society that the human mind is capable of. Frankel moves the dialogue towards this ends. The latter part of the book is not so much my deal, because I'm more interested in the philosophy and less interested in the application. But cool... probably outdated, but cool.
Like millions of people, I loved so I tried some more Frankl. But this one bored me to tears. Freud was a materialist focused on urge and instinct, Jung was a borderline mystic,with a focus on life's meaning Frankl straddled the border between science and religion. This book has interesting ideas, but it didn't age as well as his best-seller.
Frankl goes into more detail regarding logotherapy, and existential analysis he introduced in Man's Search for Meaning. Logotherapy seeks to help people find meaning in their lives, and serves as a response to Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's Individual psychology. Expected of existential psychology, Frankl weaves philosophy with therapy and discusses the meaning of life, death, work, suffering and love. He also covers the psychology of specific conditions such as anxiety, obsessional neurosis and schizophrenia. Like his first book, he discusses the psychology of his fellow prisoners at the concentration camps. He dedicates a whole section filled with case studies to the two therapeutic techniques in logotherapy: paradoxical intention and de-reflection. Finally, Frankl equates the practice of therapy as analogous to a religious experience. This volume is rich with content to induce self-reflection on improving one's own life. I will be referencing this book in the future, and highly recommend it. "It is life itself that asks questions of man...it is not up to man to question; rather, he should recognize that he is questioned, questioned by life; he has to respond by being responsible; and he can answer to life only by answering for his life."
Sielogyda: gydytojo r奴pestis - siela - tai psichologinis ir filosofinis veikalas apie logoterapijos, terapinio metodo, padedan膷io 啪mon臈ms rasti asmenin臋 gyvenimo prasm臋, pagrindus ir taikym膮.
Man Sielogyda pasirod臈 daugiau kaip vadov臈lis, nei kaip paprastas skaitalas: labai informatyvi ir ver膷ianti m膮styti, reikalaujanti i拧 skaitytojo daug koncentracijos ir tam tikr懦 psichologini懦 ternim懦, veikal懦, teorij懦 啪inojimo.
Kadangi nesu nei psichologijos ekspert臈, nei student臈, man 拧i knyga buvo per sunki, ypa膷 d臈l to, kad a拧 jos klausiausi, o ne skai膷iau. Kai naujos informacijos daug, reikia labai daug koncentracijos. O jei dar ko nors nesupranti, mintys pradeda klysti, ir tuoj jau nebesusigaudai, apie k膮 eina kalba...
Visgi k膮 pavyko suprasti ir 寞sisavinti, patiko, gavau nema啪ai med啪iagos apm膮stymui ir 寞domi懦 寞啪valg懦 寞 tam tikras mane dominan膷ias sritis: prasm臈s ie拧kojim膮, fobijas, savi啪udyb臋, depresij膮, neuroz臋 ir kitus psichikos sutrikimus.
I loved his book Man鈥檚 Search for Meaning so thought this would be similar. It is not. In the previous book, he introduces himself and how he derived his concept of logotherapy through experiences in WW2 and the concentration camps which was both horrifying and fascinating. This book, however, reads like a psychology textbook in which he explains the methodology and precise concepts of logotherapy. While I can鈥檛 say it was a bad read, I did not finish it as it was way too dry for me and too clinical. If you work or study in the medical or psychological field, this may be for you but too in depth for a casual read.
Este hombre realmente di贸 un paso adelante en el entendimiento del comportamiento humano. Creo que si hubiese conocido o si se hubiese interesado por la cultura oriental podr铆a haber encontrado un punto intermedio entre lo que hace la mente y necesita el alma. Llegada cierta edad, al hombre le da por cuestionarse la existencia y de ah铆 que entender el comportamiento humano o las necesidades del alma se vuelve un tema recurrente en nuestras vidas. Muy interesante lectura... y bastante esclarecedora.
Didactic - but that works for me because as a person who's always meta about my own life, this is what I needed to understand the neuroses that I'm constantly drowning in
I underlined and highlighted so many phrases and sentences, it's now the most read book in my library because I always seem to pick it up, not to necessarily feel better, but to understand why I shouldn't be feeling so enveloped in tragedy
While 'Man's Search for Meaning' is Frankl's most famous work, it is 'The Doctor and the Soul' which distills the foundational approaches to Logotherapy. In his accessible style, Frankl explores how a spiritual dimension to our life, can be an important therapeutic tool to address psychopathologies.
Me lleve un a帽o en leerlo, lento, tranquilo. Es un buen viaje al rededor de la logoterapia, fundamentado, ejemplificado. Expone varias t茅cnicas invaluables para tratamientos espec铆ficos y no espec铆ficos. No impone ninguna ideolog铆a.
Faktas, kad Franklis yra vienas i拧 psichoterapijos t臈v懦. Jo mintis skaityti 寞domu ir verta sustoti, pagalvoti. Dauguma jo min膷i懦, atrodo, skirtos 拧i懦 laik懦 啪mogui.
Bell鈥檃pproccio, carico di amore, al fenomeno umano. Non so se e quanto la pratica logoterapica sia efficace, ma il quadro delineato da Frankl mi pare avere il pregio di cogliere il valore nell鈥檌nterezza dell鈥檈ssere umano, senza voler ridurre nessun aspetto della persona ai suoi supposti componenti elementari, senza rinchiudere l鈥檈ssere umano all鈥檌nterno di una gabbia di condizionamenti fisici, biologici, sociali ecc.: 芦possiamo allora definire l鈥檜omo come un essere che sa liberarsi da ci貌 che lo determina (cio猫 le determinazioni biologiche, psicologiche, sociologiche che ne fanno un 鈥榯ipo鈥�)禄. Ulteriormente, niente di umano 猫 indegno di rispettoso interesse: 芦nessun pensiero 猫 perituro, anche se non si 猫 mai potuto esprimere, anche se 猫 sceso nella tomba con chi lo pens貌; [鈥 la vita intima di ogni uomo, in tutta la sua drammaticit脿 e talora tragicit脿, non 猫 mai 鈥榠nutile鈥�, anche se nessuno l鈥檋a presa in considerazione, anche se nessuno saprebbe farne un romanzo禄; e se anche quest鈥檕pera biografica fosse scritta per ciascuno di noi, 芦non ci 猫 consentito formulare un giudizio su una biografia dal numero delle pagine di cui 猫 composta, ma solo dalla ricchezza dei suoi contenuti禄. Ulteriormente, di nuovo, non esiste un solo istante e una sola situazione in cui un essere umano non possa realizzare un valore. In particolare, resta sempre la 芦capacit脿 di comportarsi da uomo anche quando le stesse possibilit脿 di vita sembrano minimizzarsi禄. Si persegue cos矛 un valore di atteggiamento: di fronte a un destino avverso che non si pu貌 n茅 mutare n茅 evitare, sia questo una malattia incurabile o l鈥檌mprigionamento in un campo di sterminio 鈥� situazione estrema che Frankl ha sperimentato e alla quale dedica belle pagine e un altro, intero libro:
Infine, mi pare interessante la proiezione verso l鈥檃ltro, verso l鈥檈sterno, verso il superamento che Frankl indica come essenziale nell鈥檈ssere umano, che 芦rimanda sempre a qualcosa che 猫 al di fuori di s茅 e non a se stesso 鈥� qualcosa o qualcuno, un significato da realizzare o una persona da incontrare. Solo nella misura in cui l鈥檜omo si trascende realizza se stesso: nella misura in cui si dona a una causa da servire o a una persona da amare. In altre parole, l鈥檜omo 猫 propriamente tale solo quando gioca la sua vita donandosi del tutto a una causa o a una persona. Egli diventa se stesso quando si proietta oltre se stesso e, ci貌 facendo, si dimentica禄.
Judging by my marginal notes, this book was probably assigned for RELST 431, the senior seminar for Religion majors at Grinnell College.
The religion major was new to Grinnell when I switched over from the history department. There had been two religion teachers for a while, they being Dennis Haas, the college chaplain, and Howard Burkle, previously under the philosophy department I imagine. Harold Kasimow had been hired to handle the Jewish and Islamic traditions as part of the new program. In addition to these three, two adjunct personnel also taught courses in the department. All of them, and the six or so majors, participated in the seminar.
The seminar required quite a bit of reading, some of it dealing directly with matters religious, some dealing with psychology. I'd switched to the department in the first place because the regular psych department was materialist and behaviorist, much devoted to laboratory work, while the religion faculty, some of them, were more oriented towards psychotherapeutics, psychological theory and the histories of both. Indeed, the two adjunts attending the seminar were both trained psychotherapists of the "humanist" persuasion.
So, anyway, we read lots of religion stuff, but also a bunch of psych theory, books about Gestalt (Perls), Phenomenological (Binswanger et al.), Behaviorist (Skinner), Client-Centered (Rogers) and other 'psychologies' such as Frankl's 'Logotherapy'. We'd read the stuff, then playfully argue about it all during the class sessions.
This Frankl book is not, however, the best to start with. In approaching his thought it is best to begin with Man's Search for Meaning.
"Hace poco he desarrollado en el marco de la logoterapia este concepto de teor铆a de la motivaci贸n "voluntad de sentido".Significa que una persona que se proyecta hacia un sentido, que ha adoptado un compromiso por 茅l, que lo percibe desde una posici贸n de responsabilidad tendr谩 una posibilidad de supervivencia incomparablemente mayor en situaciones l铆mite que la del resto de la gente normal"
"El sentido debe buscarse,y se puede buscar.El proceso de b煤squeda del sentido es una especie de proceso de percepci贸n de la forma".
"El relativo bienestar material est谩 acompa帽ado de un empoderamiento existencial"
"No respondemos a la vida con palabras,sino con acciones. Eso si acciones de las que nos hacemos responsables "
"La capacidad de adaptaci贸n no tiene l铆mites.No se trata de lo que experimentas durante el proceso de envejecimiento,sino de qu茅 postura adoptas ante 茅l, como lo transformas y c贸mo intentas formar algo positivo de lo negativo"
"... el hombre no est谩 libre de circunstancias biol贸gicas,psicol贸gicas y sociol贸gicas, pero siempre es y ser谩 libre para adoptar una postura frente a todas estas condiciones y circunstancias, ya sea resign谩ndose a ellas o ya sea super谩ndolas haciendo uso del poder de obstinaci贸n de la mente " "Ser persona no significa nunca tener que ser que ser solo as铆 y nada m谩s, sino que es poder s茅 siempre de otra manera.Estta capacidad de autoformaci贸n,de autotransformaci贸n,est谩 capacidad de madurar m谩s all谩 de uno mismo no se la puedo negar a nadie,porque si no, la capacidad se marchitar谩."