Sublime

Semrad taught us that most human suffering is related to love and loss and that the job of therapists is to help people “acknowledge, experience, and bear” the reality of life—with all its pleasures and heartbreak. “The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves,” he’d say, urging us to be honest with ourselves about every fac

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer; his essays “Wisdom of Life” and “Counsels and Maxims,” although not explicitly Stoical, have a distinctly Stoical tone.

He sought to help his patients find a way to make their lives meaningful even in the face of depression or mental illness.

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,”

Les psychiatres suisses Medard Boss et Ludwig Binswanger mirent au point la « Daseinsanalyse » en s’inspirant des idées de Heidegger ; par la suite, les idées de Sartre eurent plus d’influence aux États-Unis et en Grande-Bretagne. Rollo May et Irvin Yalom travaillèrent dans un cadre ouvertement existentialiste tandis que des idées semblables guidèr

Freud finds the root of these distressing disorders in the anxiety caused by conflicting and unconscious motives. Frankl distinguishes several forms of neurosis, and traces some of them (the noögenic neuroses) to the failure of the sufferer to find meaning and a sense of responsibility in his existence. Freud stresses frustration in the sexual life

Logotherapy deviates from psychoanalysis insofar as it considers man a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts, or in merely reconciling the conflicting claims of id, ego and superego, or in the mere adaptation and adjustment to society and environment

Buber était un philosophe juif allemand qui est mort il y a environ cinquante ans, et dont le travail porte sur la rencontre véritable entre deux êtres : la relation du Je-Tu, une relation pleine et profondément réciproque, qui s’oppose à la relation du Je-Cela, laquelle néglige l’altérité de l’autre et utilise plus qu’elle ne rapproche. Cette idée