The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy
A Philosophy, Psychology, Religion book. By [anticipatory anxiety] I mean that the patient reacts to an event with a fearful expectation of its...
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By [anticipatory anxiety] I mean that the patient reacts to an event with a fearful expectation of its recurrence. However, fear tends to make happen precisely that which one fears, and so does anticipatory anxiety. Thus a vicious circle is established. A symptom evokes a phobia and the phobia provokes the symptom. The recurrence of the symptom then reinforces the phobia. The patient is caught in a cocoon. [] [Obsessive-compulsives] fear the potential effects or the potential cause of the strange thoughts. The phobic pattern of flight from fear is paralleled... A famous American Freudian, commenting on a paper I had read, reported that he just had returned from Moscow. There, he said, he had found a lower frequency of neurosis as compared with the United States. He added that this might be traced to the fact that in Communist countries, as he felt, people are more often confronted with a task to complete. 'This speaks in favor of your theory,' he concluded, 'that meaning direction and task orientation are important in terms of mental health.' A year later, some Polish psychiatrists asked me to give a paper... What I had done was nothing so extraordinary. I had simply taken [the prisoners] as human beings and not mistaken them for mechanisms to repair. I had interpreted them in the same way they had interpreted themselves all along, that is to say, as free and responsible. I had not offered them a cheap escape from guilt feelings by conceiving of them as victims of biological, psychological, or sociological conditioning processes. Nor had I taken them as helpless pawns on the battleground of id, ego, and superego. Viktor E. Frankl, The Will to Meaning: Foundations...
Of all the philosophy books I have read, Frankl's views ring most true for me. That being said, Frankl was more psychologist than philosopher.This book has two halves: the first is the "why" of Logotherapy and the second half the "how."The first half is what I found to be the most engaging. The more I read Frankl, the more I realize... Very rarely can a work have an insightful perspective on philosophy, theology, and psychology while maintaining the appropriate boundaries between these fields, but Dr. Frankl always seems to pull it off. He's definitely one of my favorite academics. While a little more technical at times than Man's Search for Meaning, it added more... Having been very impressed by his Man's Search for Meaning in college I purchased and read this book with high expectation. I was disappointed. The actual theory and practice of what Frankl termed "logotherapy" was of far less interest to me than the experiences which led to his central insights.
