Man's Search for Meaning

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   Even amid the harshest suffering, a person who finds a reason, a purpose to hold onto, can endure far better than one with no goal at all.

   Man's Search for Meaning · 1946

   A personally discovered meaning in suffering provides psychological resilience and a chance of survival.

   Frankl survived concentration camps and observed that those with a clear reason to keep going — a child, an unfinished project, a promise — endured better than those who had lost all hope. From this he built a therapy method centered on the search for personal meaning.

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