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Essay on Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Franklyn
In "Man's Search for Meaning," Franklyn persuasively narrates how he survived his years at Auschwitz and further death camps. However long before his imprisonment, Franklyn had seen and fought the Nazi euthanasia program aimed at the brain injured and sternly psychologically not well. Victor Franklyn endured three years of starvation, cold, terror and disgrace in Auschwitz and in other absorption camps. His wife, Tilly, his only brother and his parents died in the Holocaust. However, he was convinced that, in spite of all human misery, life has meaning and the essential yearning of the human heart is to find the meaning of life. next to Rothschild, Franklyn clandestinely sabotaged the Nazi euthanasia program. Risking certain death if the Gestapo discovered his hard work, he inaccurate the medical records of brain-damaged or schizophrenic patients to save them from Hitler's secret instruction to extinguish all "life unworthy of life" the Nazis' villainous phrase mitigating euthanasia. Franklyn at the hospital also was faced with another moral challenge: how to respond appropriately to suicidal patients. As a psychotherapist, his firm view was consistent with Jewish tradition: Suicide is never an acceptable solution for life's suffering, no matter what its cause.
The book begins with a drawn out, severe, and intensely touching personal essay about Frankl's imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years, and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live. The second part of the book, called "Logo therapy in a Nutshell," describes the psychotherapeutic method that Franklyn pioneered as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps. Freud believed that sexual instincts and urges were the driving force of humanity's life; Franklyn, by contrast, believes that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. Frankl's logo therapy, therefore, is much more compatible with Western religions than Freudian psychotherapy..........
