Book Club: Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search For Meaning"
Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast
David J Puder
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we will be going over a book every therapist and psychiatrist should read, Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning." Being in the trenches with our patients, we see so much pain and suffering and potentially undergo vicarious trauma ourselves through their suffering. The question, "What is the meaning of life?" often comes up in such a context.
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| 0:36.5 | I am joined today with three residents. |
| 0:39.8 | All third years, Serena, Maman Weber, Hassan, Kanani, Grace Kim, and this is a live in |
| 0:48.9 | Florida. |
| 0:49.9 | This is the first Florida Book Club session. |
| 0:54.0 | And this book club, we will be going through Victor Frankl's Man Search for Meaning. |
| 1:01.2 | I've spoken about this in my therapy-to-alliance series on Logo Therapy. |
| 1:06.2 | If you want to look at the research on how this has played out in evidence-based trials, |
| 1:11.6 | that's an episode to go through. |
| 1:13.9 | But in this one, we're going to be going through in particular his life and the book that |
| 1:20.0 | he wrote in a 90-period after he was released from a concentration camp, actually the fourth |
| 1:27.8 | concentration camp he had been through. |
| 1:30.6 | He wrote this book in nine days, and it was released in 1946 in German without his name. |
| 1:38.6 | He did not want to put his name on it because he wanted it to be, but he didn't want it |
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