Victor Frankl Man's Search For Meaning
Victor Frankl was, and is still today, an extremely well known therapist from Vienna and is widely respected by other doctors in his field including such names as Freud and Nietzsche. One of the reasons that he is so respected in his field is because he is basing his theories off of his personal experiences in the holocaust where he had been held in an extermination camp where he experienced the most extreme of human conditions and came out of it with his teaching of therapy known as logotherapy. While in the camps Frankl studied the lives of the SS (German guards), the capos (Jewish guards), and the prisoners. From this study Frankl learned many basic things about life.
Frankl while in the camps saw that all of the different groups of people had different attitudes, and he believed that a man's attitude is the one thing that they can't take away from a man and that no matter what happens he can always choose his attitude and it is a man's attitude that decides whether or not the......
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