When Life Calls Out to Us: The Love and Lifework of Viktor and Elly Frankl
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (509 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 038550036X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Needed now for this generation Nancy Carter In a materialistic and narcissistic generation the words of Frankl are desperately needed to guide them to understand that true love and happiness only comes when self is forgotten, money is a means to help others, suffering is inevitable but must not be avoided but acceptedused as a means for helping others without judgement.I am convinced that Frankl's ideas and living each of these shows us the answer to a deeper love and a deeper lifeI have taught over 30 years. More and more I see a loss of personal responsibility, money used for a means to feel superior, and a growth in self-ce. Excellent biographic information As one of Dr. Frankl's medical students at the Poliklinik in 19Excellent biographic information E. Rodin MD As one of Dr. Frankl's medical students at the Poliklinik in 1948 I found this book of great interest. It is well written and detailed. Although I had always admired Frankl for not falling victim to hate after his concentration camp experiences I was unaware of the profound influence his second wife Elly (the first wife,Tilly, died in Bergen-Belsen) had in his recovery from the tragedies and the help she had given him in the propagation of logotherapy.Anyone who is familiar with some of Frankl's book will enjoy reading about the fascinating and colorful personal lives of these two tr. 8 I found this book of great interest. It is well written and detailed. Although I had always admired Frankl for not falling victim to hate after his concentration camp experiences I was unaware of the profound influence his second wife Elly (the first wife,Tilly, died in Bergen-Belsen) had in his recovery from the tragedies and the help she had given him in the propagation of logotherapy.Anyone who is familiar with some of Frankl's book will enjoy reading about the fascinating and colorful personal lives of these two tr. The anecdote to the Weaknesses in the Human Potential movement To those of us who cut our "self-awareness teeth" on Freud, Rogers, Adler and Maslow, Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" was a much-welcomed counterweight, jerking us forcefully back to a common reality about our humanity. For three decades we had watched the pendulum swing from a "human potential movement" run amok (that is from the pursuit of self-esteem projects and self-fulfillment ideologies at all costs and for their own sake. to self-awareness projects such as EST and (for me) "Life Spring," both of which were also self-absorbed self-actualization projects). But stripped of t
Married in 1947, the Frankls created a life of hope and faith, a life committed to proclaiming the oneness of the human family, challenging materialistic values, and encouraging the pursuit of meaning. But it was Elly Schwindt, a woman half his age, who helped him put the pieces of his broken life together. But although Frankl’s thought and philosophy have been widely analyzed, until now little has been written about his life, and about the deeply loving, intensely spiritual relationship that led him and his wife to dedicate their lives to reducing pain and oppression in the world. Haddon Klingberg records and preserves the Frankl legacy, with his own eloquent and moving reflections.” -- David G. Myers, Hope College, author of The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of PlentyWritten in response to the horrors he experienced and witnessed during the Holocaust, Viktor Frankl’s landmark book, Man’s Search for Meaning, has sold mil
When he met an operating room assistant named Elly, it was "love at first eyesight," and over the next five decades, their romance, described in When Life Calls Out to Us, helped inspire the development of Frankl's famous philosophy of logotherapy. (Victor loved Captain Kangaroo and MacDonald's cheeseburgers "minus the mushy bread.") Readers already enamored of the Frankls will likely be entranced by the book; the rest may wish Klingberg had better emulated the linguistic skills of his hero, whose text, he says, were "sophisticated, yet precise