Man's Search for Meaning

Man’s Search for Meaning
Man’s Search for Meaning is a book written by Victor Frankl. He was an Austrian neurologist, psychologists and psychiatrists. More interestingly, he was a prisoner in Nazi concentration camp. Frankl invented a method of logotherapy. This method became a basis for the Third Vienna School of Psychotherapy. The method of logotherapy is one of the existential therapy kinds based on the analysis of the senses of life.
Man’s Search for Meaning carries the main thought of Frankl that question about a human’s sense of life always disturbs people in evident or latent form. He states that those who consider their lives to be pointless cannot be happy. Moreover, he considers that such people are worthless for life. After Frankl, earlier or later, a human, who has no sense of life will think of suicide (Frankl, 1985). This is a good lesson to remember. Having a meaning makes one’s life to be reasonable. Family, work, reaching aims, creating something can become someone’s sense of life. A person with sense will not think about suicide. It means that it is crucial to find own sense for every person in the world. Moreover, if a person is in despair, it is crucial to help such person in searching sense. This knowledge will help for a future attorney to sort out different legal cases and find reasons of committing crimes.
Sense of a human’s life should be found, and not invented. The doctor’s task is to help patient in his searching for meaning, but not imposing on the doctor’s position. Frankl states that every person is unique. A lot of people think that there is no some special meaning for every person’s life. Though, such thoughts reflect a human’s experience. Frankl considers them to be an indication of a human in ...

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...n something they have reached and it is impossible to disagree with this. An attorney should think not only about the laws, but also about psychology, reasons, sense in every case separately. Frankl’s book is imbued with a respect to a concrete human’s personality. An attorney also has to perceive every person separately, as a unique individual in order to do his or her work properly. Conformism may be formed while assessing one’s deeds. People must answer for things they are not responsible for and those who judge them do not carry responsibility for a sentence. Conformism cannot be allowed in the work of an attorney. It is important to change people and help them in searching meaning, to direct them to a sense. Only having sense helps to live a meaningful life.

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Frankl, V. (1985). Man’s Search for Meaning. First Washington Square Press.