Whats the meaning for you in advancing Viktor Frankls legacy?
One of the things I learned is that Viktor Frankl was not a big therapy buff. He really challenged the legacy of therapy. He believed we have so much responsibility for ourselves that we didn’t have to spend half of our life on a therapist’s couch. He believed in humanizing medicine and psychiatry and not just reducing people to the id, ego, or their drives. He said having questions about the meaning of your life are natural and should be expected. I don’t think he got from the mainstream the support he deserved. A lot of the therapists I’ve been talking to almost have this feeling that this was a philosophy. Nothing more. They are afraid of losing patients instead of liberating and empowering them. For the most part there’s a lot of health that could be furthered by Viktor Frankl’s work. A lot that people could get from looking deeply at the issues he raises, which are the issues they probably feel. The ones who have been closest to Viktor Frankl’s work recognize that he wasn’t a big
