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"Man's Search For Meaning" by Viktor Frankl, 2000.
A review of the psychotherapist's work on dehumanization and the relationship between conditioning and spiritual dimension of freedom and meaning, based on logotherapy.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, $ 55.95
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"Viktor Frankl, in Man's Search for Meaning, examines the relationship between human conditioning and the human spiritual dimension of freedom and meaning. As a psychotherapist, Frankl does not offer religious solutions, but he clearly believes that the individual seeking freedom and meaning in his or her life must connect with some cause beyond himself or herself, or with some person other than himself or herself, if he or she is to overcome the dehumanizing and unhealthy forces of conditioning in physiological, social and psychological terms. Frankl also believes that it is the responsibility of the individual to recognize his or her freedom of choice, despite the conditioning circumstances which prevail, and to take action based on that freedom which will transcend that conditioning and lead to a connection with another human being and/or with a cause which..."
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"Man's Search For Meaning" and "Warriors Don't Cry", 2004.
A comparative analysis of the books "Man's Search For Meaning" by Viktor Frankl and "Warriors Don't Cry" by Melba Pattillo Beals.
849 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper discusses how the books "Man's Search For Meaning" by Viktor Frankl and "Warriors Don't Cry" by Melba Pattillo Beals are comparable on many levels. It looks at how both deal with oppression of a group of people because of religious and/or ethnic differences. It examines how Frankl's novel is a recollection of his experiences in the Nazi Death Camps during World War II, and how he found a way to survive not only physically, but mentally as well. It also looks at how "Warriors Don't Cry" is about Beals' experience as one of nine black children to be integrated into Central High School in 1957 and the persecution that she and her fellow classmates faced.
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"When the school year ended for Melba, as well as when the prisoners were liberated from the camps, happiness was not all of the sudden restored, but it was an emotion that had to be relearned in both situations. On page 310 in Warriors Don't Cry, Beals states, "It would take years of sorting out my Central High experience before the pieces of my life puzzle would come together and I could make sense of what happened to me". The trauma that Melba and her fellow black peers had experienced robbed them of all emotion that could be connected to the situation. In order to stop the pain, they blocked out feeling all together. "
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Mans Search For Meaning (Viktor Frenkl), 2001.
Examines triumph of human freedom over oppression & degradation of concentration camps.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, $ 55.95
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"1. Introduction
Based on Viktor Frankl?s Man?s Search For Meaning, this essay is an examination of the capacity of human beings to hold on to their freedom and find meaning in life, in spite of adverse physiological, social, and psychological conditionings. While reading Frankl?s depiction of the traumatic life in a concentration camp, one poses this fundamental question about human existence: how can human beings tolerate this level of degradation without giving up their faith in human freedom and meaning in their lives?
The answer lies within the inner souls of the prisoners who possessed the courage to exercise their freedom and make their own choices when confronted with the nightmarish options available to them. As Frankl points out, even though most of the.."
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"Man's Search for Meaning", 2004.
A reader's search for clarity, basis, adequacy, and implications in Victor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning".
1,553 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper discusses the book written by psychiatrist Victor Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning". The paper explains how he personally came to grips with the conflict of the meaning of life by developing a new form of psychotherapy to rival Sigmund Freud's. The paper claims that Frankl was first moved to question his life's meaning and impetus after he was imprisoned, first in Auschwitz and then in other concentration camps for the duration of over five years, during World War II. He had to struggle within himself to find plausible reasons to live, to fight on against his persecutors in the face of overwhelming odds. The result of this struggle was the psychotherapeutic method Frankl eventually came to call logo-therapy.
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"Victor Frankl was first moved to question his life's meaning and impetus after he was imprisoned, first in Auschwitz and then in other concentration camps for the duration of over five years, during World War II. Over and over again, in the face of tremendous suffering and guilt because his own continued survival when so many other people he had known before the war's beginning had died, he had to struggle within himself to find plausible reasons to live, to fight on against his persecutors in the face of overwhelming odds."
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"Man's Search for Meaning", 2007.
A review of Victor Frankl's book "Man's Search for Meaning".
1,060 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper examines how Victor Frankl, in his book "Man's Search for Meaning", adds significantly to the literature written by survivors of the Holocaust. Before being sent to a concentration camp, Frankl was an internationally renowned psychiatrist, and he returned to this role once released. It looks at how his discussion of meaning in life carries particular power because of his experience and his demonstrated understanding of human psychology. It also discusses how he explains his own particular view of healing psychological problems, a method he calls logotherapy.
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"In the camps, Frankl demonstrated how man can live with almost no food, no water, and facing inhumane conditions, yet still survive. He developed the ability to nurture the mind and the soul when he could not nourish the body, learning to appreciate the beauties of art and nature as much as he could in the circumstances. He emphasizes at the outset that this book is a personal recollection and not a psychiatric treatise because "To attempt a methodical presentation of the subject is very difficult, as psychology requires a certain scientific detachment" (24). "
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A Search for Meaning and Identity, 2006.
An examination of meaning and identity in the eyes of literature.
3,299 words (approx. 13.2 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 94.95
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In this paper the author philosophizes on the search for meaning and identity. He identifies how meaning is searched for under the influence of power, reality and religion and the search for power is a common human concern. He then discusses identity as a consideration of the Other, gender, race, the grotesque and the self. The paper concludes with the joining of these two theories.
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"Foucault (1977) sheds interesting light upon the issue of power through a discussion of the plague and how it was handled. He mentions the elements of the constant "gaze" as well as space restriction. The plague, seen as chaos, was met with order, control and power. People were restricted to their homes, and the enclosed, segmented space, was observed at every point. The function of this order is to eradicate all confusion. Confusion was brought about by the disease, transmitted from body to body. The confusion of the evil increased when fear, disease and death "
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The Psychotherapy of Viktor Frankl.
This paper discusses the psychotherapy of Viktor Frankl, the man who brought existentialism to the field.
2,070 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 65.95
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This paper explains that, having gone through truly agonizing and painful experiences in Auschwitz from 1943-45, Viktor Frankl founded a new school of psychotherapy that focused on meaning of life and man's connection with the soul and universe. The author points out that Frankl's theory of psychotherapy gave birth to the school of logotherapy, which at its core, is his theory that "will to meaning" keeps a person alive and serves as the primary motivating force. The paper relates that logotherapy assists patients in developing a systematic meaningful story from which to draw answers to their numerous queries; the patient, who wants to know why he should not commit suicide when there are so many problems can be helped to see that his question contains a glimmer of hope.
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"While his theory has often been criticized for being reductionist, Frankl has also been widely appreciated for his work on existentialist psychotherapy. His reductionist view of man's existence led him to declare that "Man is nothing but a complex biochemical mechanism powered by a combustion system which energizes computers with prodigious storage facilities for retaining encoded information."
From this view came into being another related theory by Frankl as he assumed that "all cultural creations of humanity become actually by-products of the drive for personal satisfaction.""
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Helping Youth and Adults Search for Meaning in Depression, 2002.
A suggested treatment for children and adults with depression.
2,005 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper addresses the resilient quality of making meaningful sense out of the problems in our lives; and how youth and adults with depression can be empowered to develop this quality. The author finds that one way of gaining a new perspective on depression is to focus on the resilient traits or qualities which have been shown to mitigate against the onset of psychopathology.
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"Currently knowledge of resiliency is only in its infancy, the resilient traits that have been identified are only very general (Garmezy & Masten, 1986). Yet these general traits should provide a baseline from which further research can be done to determine which protect against specific mental health problems (Neiger, 1991). One of the protective traits that has been identified is the ability of many resilient individuals to make meaningful sense out of the chaotic and traumatic events that confront them (Neiger. 1991). Young-Eisendrath (1996) states that the capacity to be resilient, to respond to difficulty with development, is rooted in many diverse factors, but it consistently depends on one thing; the meaning you, the individual, make of where you are (p. 22). Taylor (1983) posits that following a negative experience, the search for a purpose or meaning in the experience is an important element in coping with the experience and moving on with life. According to Taylor (1983), people who were able to assign a positive meaning to a negative experience were shown to be better adjusted psychologically."
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The Search For Meaning, 2002.
A comparison of the Renaissance period with our own.
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This paper discusses that it is evident from close examination and comparison of the Renaissance era with our own, that the basic differences between the two periods are fundamental. Similarities are present, as is only natural when considering that our modern world evolved from the Renaissance world, but the primary causes that led to the Renaissance are not present at this time, and circumstances are very different in nearly every major field of human experience.
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Logotherapy, 2005.
This paper discusses the concept of logotherapy as presented by Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning".
1,120 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper explains that logotherapy, "therapy through finding meaning" contains three basic beliefs: (1) Life has meaning under all circumstances even the most miserable ones; (2) the main motivation for living is the will to find meaning in life and (3) people have the freedom to find meaning in what they do and experience or at least in the attitude taken when faced with a situation of unchangeable
suffering. The author points out that Viktor Frankl developed the theory of logotherapy through the psychoanalysis of himself and other prisoners of concentration camps during the Holocaust. The paper reveals that Frankl observed that people are willing to endure any suffering, if they are convinced that this suffering has meaning; however, suffering without meaning leads to despair.
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"Each person has to decide what attitude to adopt. An example from the book to describe this theory is found during their liberation. Frankl explained that some of the prisoners, now being free, thought they could use their freedom licentiously and ruthlessly. The only thing that had changed for them was that they were now the oppressors instead of the oppressed. They justified their behavior by their own terrible experiences. He describes walking across a field of green crops with his friend who trampled on the young crops and became annoyed because Frankl did not follow. He shouted, "You don't say! And hasn't enough been taken from us? My wife and child have been gassed - not to mention everything else - and you would forbid me to tread on a few stalks of oats!" "
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Meaning of Life, 1997.
Compares philosophical & spiritual perspectives of Thich Nhat Hanh in "Miracle of Mindfulness", Viktor Frankl in "Man's Search for Meaning" & Bernie Siegel in "Love, Medicine & Miracles".
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 3 sources, $ 63.95
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"Reflections on the Meaning of Life: A Comparative Study
The purpose of this essay is to explore perspectives on the meaning of life. The works of Thich Nhat Hanh, Viktor Frankl, and Dr. Bernie Siegel consider the question of life?s meaning from individual viewpoints and motivations. Thich Nhat Hanh wrote The Miracle of Mindfulness while in exile during the war in Vietnam in the hope of relieving suffering and instilling peace in the hearts and minds of people on both sides of the conflict. Viktor Frankl?s Man?s Search for Meaning was written to share his experiences in a Nazi death camp to prevent such atrocities from ever happening again. Dr. Bernie Siegel?s Love, Medicine and Miracles describes the everyday miracles he witnessed in his work as a surgeon treating cancer patients, and emphasizes that love is the true healer. Collectively, these works reflect upon .."
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Nursing and the Meaning of Life, 2000.
An examination of Victor Frankl's logotherapy ("Man's Search for Meaning") and application of his ideas and principles to interpersonal exchanges in advanced practice nursing.
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"Applying Concepts of Life's Meaning To Advanced Practice
Introduction
This research considers the application of concepts of life's meaning to advanced practice nursing. The findings of this research are presented in a review of Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, a review of germane work by other theorists, and appropriate applications of the concepts covered in this literature in advanced practice nursing.
A Review of Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning
The practical manifestation of Frankl's ideas is logotherapy, which is a form of existential psychotherapy that is based on the meaning of one's existence. Frankl's logotherapy frequently is considered to be the third Viennese school of therapy, following those of Freud and Adler."
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The Meaning of Life, 2004.
A philosophical discussion about the meaning of life.
2,100 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper discusses the quest for the meaning of life. The paper examines several literary works that deal with this topic. Two questions are raised by the paper, ?What am I seeking?? and ?What will provide lasting, if not eternal, satisfaction??. These questions are examined in relation to the ultimate search for the meaning of life.
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"The meaning for life has illusively evaded humans for centuries. Theories abound, yet the hunger remains as mankind seeks to identify a purpose for their existence. The question of our purpose is often unknowingly based on two other unanswered queries. While some seems to construct on a meaning of life from their accomplishments, basing personal value, purpose, meaning on what he or she builds to leave behind after his death is a huge assumption. Constructivists believe that because a reality outside of this life does not exist, the construction one?s own personal reality, and meaning for life is the only example. This assumption is particularly American in understanding, having evolved out of the prosperity of the West in combination with the trend of distancing ourselves from religious traditions. However, if the discussion is the meaning of life, our conclusions must be more universally applicable than to a nation which prides itself on production, and wealth."
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The Meaning of Work, 2006.
This in-depth paper analyzes the definition regarding the true meaning of work and its impact on business, as perceived by various social scientists.
3,992 words (approx. 16.0 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 108.95
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The writer of this paper attempts to define the true meaning of work while questioning whether or not people actually value their work or if they're in fact averse to it. The writer contends and explains why the concept of 'meaning of work' refers to the effectiveness of an enterprise as well as a sense of significance in a larger structure. This paper analyzes the pivotal role of work in comparison to leisure, community, religion and family activities. This paper details the views and perceptions of various social scientists, in American and around the world, regarding this specific topic. This paper delves into the elaborate research of William Whitely regarding work values in England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Yugoslavia, the U.S., Japan and Israel. This paper discusses an analysis by Alexandre Ardichvili which indicates one of the first attempts to explore the meaning of working in countries that move from centrally planned to market driven economies. This paper also examines the Meaning of Work (MOW) Study as well as its results, which gathered proof relating to the manner in which cultural, societal and individual factors form the work ethic. The MOW International Research Team has created a work centrality index that prioritizes the responses from people in different nations in terms of their commitment to work and the magnitude of their identity with their work, which is detailed in this paper.
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"Allocating responsibility, building a varied and interesting work environment and particularly permitting autonomy all supplemented considerably to enhanced level of work centrality. Neither, positive work incidents like enhancement in salary and working environment along with developed interpersonal associations not negative work incidents like elimination of employment and extended unemployment result in individual work centrality. The life incident of marriage did not influence work centrality of men or women. The pregnancy and birth gives rise to the decline of absolute work centrality among women like that in 1993 work centrality was considerably lower among women those experienced childbirth, in contrast to those who did not."
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?Shiloh? and the Search for Change, 2002.
This paper looks at Bobbie Ann Mason's book "Shiloh" in which the two main characters, Norma Jean and Leroy, search for meaning in their empty working-class lives.
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This paper discusses themes of quest for meaning in life and sense of self, pain, alienation, a changing world, feminism and the American dream in Bobbie Ann Mason's short story "Shiloh." An analysis of the two main characters, husband and wife Norma Jean and Leroy, also reveals aspects of Mason's writing skill.
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"On first reading, the short story ?Shiloh? by Bobbie Ann Mason, seems like a simple story of a Kentucky couple whose marriage is about to break up. Initially the reader may not be sure these characters are much worth caring about. After further consideration it becomes obvious that the story is packed with deeper meaning that can be discovered by closely examining the details. Living in a changing society, the characters in ?Shiloh? feel alienated from their own lives and attempt to do something about it. The ways that the characters search for meaning are significant to Mason?s mission of portraying every day people facing everyday life in today?s changing world."
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