Victor Frankl: Quotations and Logotherapy
Some of the statements of Viktor Frankl became "people's". What is so special about this man and the scientist?
From birth to logotherapy
Victor Frankl - psychologist, neurologist and psychiatristis a former prisoner of a fascist concentration camp. In the millstones of war remained his father, mother, wife. It is unlikely that a boy born in a Jewish family of employees could imagine himself the founder of the third Viennese school of psychoanalysis, to become one with such scientists as Z. Freud and A. Adler.
Victor Frankl was born and raised in Vienna, where in thisa period of time there were heated debates between representatives of the first and second Viennese schools of psychoanalysis. Interest in psychology directs the young man to the University of Vienna, where he is trained in the specialization of neurology and psychiatry. Frankl was particularly interested in the psychology of depression and suicide. It can not be said that the schools of Freud and Adler passed by the attention of Victor Emil Frankl. However, in his works there is no imitation, rather, a permanent invisible dialogue in the solution of questions of psychotherapy. Before the war, the young doctor manages to publish several articles and works in the department for the prevention of suicide in the clinic of Vienna. In the life of Victor Franklin, books were still of secondary importance, and logotherapy as a concept did not take definitive shape.
Concentration camps and "stubbornness of the spirit"
Despite the feasible assistance of former patients,Viktor Frankl is in the concentration camp "Theresienstadt". His parents and wife were sent to other camps, where they soon died. Many quotes of Victor Frankl began to exist in this period of the prisoner's life. Having proper education, the doctor tried to organize psychological support for prisoners. Questions that the prisoners asked each day could be formulated in three phrases:
- whether we will survive in a concentration camp;
- what is the meaning of suffering and death;
- why is everything arranged in this way.
As a psychotherapist, Frankl realized that the answers toevery person should find the questions for himself. And the answers will sound different in different people, but from this they will not be less valuable. So the concept of logotherapy was born, the cut of which Victor Frankl gave after the war.
According to the doctor's observation, people who realized and acceptedthe meaning of their existence, planned goals for tomorrow, had a better chance of survival. The driving force in this case was not the principle of pleasure or domination, but the search for the meaning of one's own life, the possibility of realizing one's abilities for the benefit of others.
The book of Victor appeared in searches and privationsFrankl "Tell the lives of" Yes. " Stubbornness of the spirit. " This is a kind of reflection of the author. Circumstances forced the scientist to study human psychology in extreme situations immediately in practice, to reveal patterns of survival. Therefore, in this book of Victor Frankl, there are no quotes that are recognized today by ear. This will happen with other publications.
Between the desire for pleasure and the will to power, there is room for finding meaning
Experiencing the pressure of authorities, but without losingstubbornness of the spirit, for the first time Victor Frankl spoke about the meaning of life and logotherapy as a method of acquiring it. Later it will be suggested that the three schools of Viennese psychoanalysis describe well the periods of a person's life. The first - the principle of pleasure - infancy and childhood, the second - the will to power - adolescence and adolescence, the third - the finding of meaning - mature age.
To determine the role of therapy, one can quote Viktor Frankl's quote (quotation): "Every time has its own neuroses, and each time needs its own psychotherapy."
Frankl's Books
The actions of people, at times, bring unpredictableresult. It happened with the book of Victor Frankl "To say" Yes "to life, which has been translated into many languages and has withstood more than one reprint. After the overwhelming success of the book, the scientist expounds in other works the concept and principles of the operation of logotherapy: "Man in the search for meaning," "Doctor and soul," "Will to sense," "Psychotherapy and existentialism," and others. Today you can often hear statements from these books, which capture the convictions of Victor Frankl (quote): "... we can not learn values, we must survive the values." Therefore, there is no moralizing in the editions, but only a description of the process of formation and conclusions of the author. It is possible to find meaning and determine values only through experience on one's own experience.
