Alisa Boyd GAC 602 April 10‚ 2000 Theorist Paper Viktor Frankl and Existentialism Viktor Frankl‚ psychiatrist and concentration camp survivor‚ is the man credited with “translating existential philosophy to practical reality” (Kottler and Brown‚ 2000). Frankl was born in Vienna‚ Austria‚ in 1905. He studied neurology and psychiatry at the University of Vienna‚ and in 1940 became director of the Neurological Department of the Rothschild Hospital in Vienna. Before the outbreak of
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supremacy of individuality of man. The existentialist philosophy is not a creation of any single philosopher. The existentialist writings scattered in the works of many philosophers‚ the important ones of which are : Friedrich Nietzsche‚ Soren Kierkegaard‚ Gabriel Marcel‚ Martin Heidegger‚ Jean Paul Sartre‚ Karl Jaspers‚ Abbagnamo‚ Bardyaev and Albert Camus etc. In American education‚ such people as Maxine Greene‚ George Kneeler‚ and Van Cleve Morris‚ are well-known existentialists who stress
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Danish philosopher and literary genius Søren Kierkegaard(1813 - 1855) that I found the most fascinating: “Kierkegaard believed that it is much easier to be complacent‚ to be self-satisfied‚ and to stick with beliefs that are comfortable and familiar than to be painfully and fully honest with ourselves and to subject our deepest convictions to examination. In Kierkegaard’s day‚ everyone was claiming to provide the answers to everyone else’s problems. Kierkegaard‚ however‚ though that his greatest contribution
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Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil‚ often accompanied by nervous behavior‚ such as pacing back and forth‚ somatic complaints and rumination. It is the subjectively unpleasant feelings of dread over anticipated events‚ such as the feeling of imminent death. Anxiety is not the same as fear‚ which is a response to a real or perceived immediate threat; whereas anxiety is the expectation of future threat. It is often accompanied by muscular tension‚ There are various
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1.1 Explain the historical development of one major therapeutic model‚ including the people influential in its development In the 1890’s Sigmund Freud‚ a German neurologist developed a theory later to be called psychoanalysis‚ which allowed individuals to tell their problems to a ‘psychoanalyst’ an individual trained in interpreting the ‘subconscious’. He played an important part in the history of counselling but the actual word “counselling” did not come into everyday language until 1960’s. Counselling
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Chase Tidmore Intro To Lit Analyst Ms. Sheperis 10/20/11 Irony Within “The Gift of the Magi” “Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it‚ but cherished by those who do”‚ Soren Kierkegaard knew what he was talking about when he said these famous words. “The Gift of the Magi”‚ written by William Sidney Porter‚ often known by his pen name O. Henry. It is a short story depicting literary elements of irony‚ romance‚ and Porter’s sense of twist endings‚ and is all about a
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A01: Examine any four of Fletcher’s six fundamental principles of Situation Ethics By Saskia Hallam The first principle of Fletcher’s which I will examine is that Fletcher says ‘only one thing is intrinsically good‚ namely love: nothing else at all.’ Using this principle Fletcher is explaining how only love is good in itself. He uses the principle to explain how nothing else has intrinsic value as other actions ‘gain or acquire their value only because they happen to help people‚ therefore being
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Throughout history‚ people’s faith has been tested when they dont get an answer to their prayers when asking for God’s help and protection. People with strong religious beliefs devote part of their lives praying for evil to go away‚ but‚ is it that they are not praying enough or is this just a waste of time? Evil is defined as something “profoundly immoral and wicked”. Evil represented in this world is proving that a God does not exist‚ if not‚ why wouldn’t he act against it? If we were to pray
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within the city. Everyone had one job in order to specialise and become good at it. We forbade our shoemaker to try his hand at farming or weaving or building and told him to stick to his last‚ in order that our shoemaking should be well done. Kierkegaard‚ (1992). More fundamentally however the city was to be divided into three distinct social classes‚ in which people would be raised from birth. These classes consisted of the producers‚ the guardians and the rulers. These correlated to
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