VIKTOR FRANKL BIOGRAPHICAL DETA=
ILS: ♦
Neurologist, Psychiatrist, Holocaust Survivor, Author ♦
Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna on March 26, 1905 ♦
In 1930, he earned his
doctorate in medicine and
trained in neurology and by 1937, he opened his own practice in
neurology and psychiatry ♦
In 1940, he began the manuscript for his book ‘The Doctor and the
Soul’ which later was found and destroyed after his move to Ausch=
witz ♦
In 1942, Frankl married, but that same year he and his family were all
arrested and brought to concentration camps ♦
He survived four camps only to discover that his family were all dead. =
He
reconstructed his book ‘The Doctor and the Soul’, then went=
on
to dictate another book which later became the book he is most famous f=
or
– ‘Man’s Search For Meaning’ which sold over 9
million copies ♦
Frankl went on to write many books before he died Died
September 2, 1997 - &n=
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March
26, 1905 – September 2, 1997 “The one thing you can’t take away from me is =
the
way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s
freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.” &n=
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- Viktor Fra=
nkl IMPORTANT IDEAS
PERTAINING TO RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Viktor
Frankl’s experiences in the concentration camps allowed him to see
the possibility for spiritual life to deepen. He expressed these sentiments =
in his
dissertation, ‘The Unconscious God’, where he examined the
relation of psychology and religion. He introduces a concept which he c=
alls
‘suprameaning’ or the idea that there is ultimate meaning in
life referring to God or spiritual meaning. INSIGHTFUL QUOTES=
: “The
salvation of man is through love and in love.” “Without
suffering and death human life cannot be complete.” “What man actually n=
eeds
is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for s=
ome
goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any
cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by
him.”
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