Psychiatry, existential psychology

Viktor Frankl

1905 – 1997

Between what happens and what one does about it there is a gap, and the stance taken in that gap is the one thing that cannot be removed. The narrow version of that claim is what staying asks for.

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Man's Search for Meaning (1946)
Where they resist the book
Written out of an extremity no workplace approaches. Borrowed loosely, it becomes an instruction to endure conditions that ought instead to be changed.

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Man's Search for Meaning · 1946

The claim the book borrows is narrow: the last freedom is the stance taken towards what cannot be altered.

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