Discover the Meaning of Your Life
" He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how " —Friedrich Nietzsche. Viktor Frankl was a prisoner and survivor of Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Based on his training as a psychotherapist and his experiences as a prisoner and survivor, he formulated the theory that he called "logotherapy," that he explains in his book, Man's Search for Meaning ." 1 According to Frankl, logos is a Greek word denoting "meaning," and logotherapy "focuses on the meaning of human existence as well as [one's] search for meaning....[T]his striving to find meaning in one's life is the primary motivational force in [humans]....This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by [the person] alone; only then does it achieve the significance which will satisfy [their] own will to meaning. . . .[Logotherapy] tries to make the patient aware of what [they] actually long for in the depth of [their] bei...