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The Missing Ingredient

Frankl didn’t intend for logotherapy to stand on its own but to supplement other theories much the same way that the spirit cannot stand on its own without the physical body, the intellect or the emotions. The spirit is not … Continue reading

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What’s Said in What’s Left Unsaid

(An addendum to what I wrote in “Being a Mensch” and “Being a Mensch Part II”) At the risk that you are already sick and tired of this topic I have one more thing to say about the middle path … Continue reading

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Value-beings

One of the confusions about values in logotherapy is that outside the realm of logotherapy what we mean by “values” is one of two things: a) an objective moral truth equally valid for everyone or b) (the absurd notion of) … Continue reading

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Are there no conditions to meaning?

I looked back over the list of my experience of meaning and saw something that could make a person wonder: If meaning has no conditions attached to it how can “fulfilling my obligations” be part of the experience of meaning? … Continue reading

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More than one way to tame an animal

A fascinating phenomenon was brought to my attention. Russian experimenter Belyaev is a breeder who worked over time to select the tamest foxes among the new ones that were born. By the end of the tenth generation the foxes became … Continue reading

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