Frankl
Human being fades away unless it commits itself to some freely chosen meaning. The emphasis lies on free choice. An outstanding American psychoanalyst reported after his trip to Moscow that behind the Iron Curtain people were less neurotic because they had more tasks to fulfill. When I was invited to read a paper before the psychiatrists of Krakow, I referred to this report, but remarked that even though the West might well confront man with fewer tasks than does the East, it leaves to him the freedom to choose among the tasks. If this freedom is denied to him, he becomes a cogwheel that has a function to carry out, but no opportunity to choose it.psychotherapy that confronts man with meaning and purpose is likely to be criticized as demanding too much of the patient. Actually, however, man of today is less endangered and threatened by being over demanded than by being underdemanded.
Journal of Religion and Health
posted by jjs @ 6:26 PM
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I think it would be interesting to see what those behind the iron curtain would have chosen if given the time and choices.
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