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Man's Search for Meaning
Frankl realized that a psychiatrist in a concentration camp has a responsibility to study suffering and reduce suffering. “It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us,” he realized.
David Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
As we said before, any attempt to restore a man’s inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal. Nietzsche’s words, “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how,” could be the guiding motto for all psychotherapeutic and psychohygienic efforts regarding prisoners. Whenever there was an opportunity for
... See moreViktor E Frankl • Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
As we said before, any attempt to restore a man’s inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal. Nietzsche’s words, “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how,” could be the guiding motto for all psychotherapeutic and psychohygienic efforts regarding prisoners. Whenever there was an opportunity for
... See moreViktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.