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.
Read alongside: Stay
- Start with
- 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.
Works worth the time
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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- Viktor Frankl Institute Vienna: biography ↗
Viktor Frankl Institute Vienna