Sublime

Philip Rieff, a mid-twentieth-century psychologist and philosopher, foresaw this trend in The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud: “Religious man was born to be saved; psychological man is born to be pleased.”

Logotherapy regards its assignment as that of assisting the patient to find meaning in his life.

The ethic of responsibility is the best answer I know to the meaning and meaningfulness of a life.

In his stories and plays, he found it immensely therapeutic to get inside his characters and make sense of even the worst types. In this way, he could forgive anybody, even his father. His approach in these cases was to imagine that each person, no matter how twisted, has a reason for what they’ve become, a logic that makes sense to them. In their

A core hypothesis stemming from the holistic use of the Wheel is that the “mental health” needs of a large percentage of troubled children, teens, and older persons would be much better addressed by helping them with their unfinished developmental tasks from the first three life stages than by pathology-centered psychotherapies or symptom-suppressi

The Uilsa story reveals his strong, almost violent emotional side and his ability to tap the Dionysian spirit; the ethics essay reflects his lifelong interest not in epistemology but in ethics. Already his question is not “What can I know?” but “How should I live?”10

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.