Portrait of Viktor Frankl
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Viktor Frankl.

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) was an Austrian psychiatrist, philosopher and Holocaust survivor, and the author of Man's Search for Meaning.

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Vienna, Austria
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1905 – 1997
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“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

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Psychology

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl

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Psychology · 1946

Man's Search for Meaning

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl describes his time in Nazi concentration camps and what it taught him: people can endure great suffering when they have a reason to live.

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  1. Meaning helps us surviveThose who held on to a purpose, a person or a task to return to, often found the strength to go on.
  2. The last freedomEven when everything else is taken, we can still choose our attitude.
  3. Suffering can have meaningPain we can't avoid becomes bearable when we find meaning in how we face it.
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