On Becoming: Self-Growth Through Struggle
Tonia N. Adams
Viktor Frankl (1905-1997), the Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, represents the epitome of overcoming tragedy and making it meaningful. A Holocaust survivor imprisoned in the infamous concentration camp Auschwitz, Frankl lost nearly all of his family save one sister to genocide, including his unborn child. How do you make sense of that or find meaning in the loss? How do you keep going when all you knew, loved, and believed in is gone, and living in the world feels like a nightmare from which you can’t wake? Frankl made it his life’s work to find purpose in this struggle we call life. He called this treatment approach logotherapy, which in Greek...
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