Psychological
What if suffering isn't the problem?
That's what breaks people. Frankl noticed something in the concentration camps: prisoners who could attach a reason to their suffering were more likely to survive. Not because the reason reduced the pain. It didn't. But it changed what the pain meant.
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.— Viktor Frankl, *Man's Search for Meaning*
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The thinker
Psychiatrist & Holocaust Survivor
Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) was an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist who survived the Holocaust and developed logotherapy, a meaning-centered approach to psychotherapy.
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