Summary Of Frankl's Hell

Frankl was a Jewish neurologist and psychiatrist who was caught up in the horrific acts of World War II. He bounced around to a few different concentration camps but in one location Frankl worked as a general practitioner in a clinic. When his skills in psychiatry were noticed, he was assigned to the psychiatric care ward establishing a service of mental health care. He organized a unit to help camp newcomers to overcome shock and grief. While in this Hell, Frankl comes up with several psychological discoveries about the people in these camps.
Frankl came up with three psychological reactions experienced by all inmates. First they will experience shock during the initial admission to camp, second they will face apathy after becoming accustomed to camp existence, in which the inmate values only that which helps himself and his friends survive, and the third and final reaction was feelings of depersonalization, moral deformity, bitterness, and disillusionment
Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast”
Logotherapy was created with the Greek word logos ("wisdom"). Frankl’s concept is based on the ideas that the primary motivation of a human being is to find a meaning in life. In the reading it is noted that Logotherapy can be broken down into three distinct parts. The first point is life has meaning under all circumstances. Secondly, our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life. And finally, we have freedom to find meaning in what we do, and what we experience, or at least in the stand we take when faced with a situation of unchangeable