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1
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What was Victor Frankl known for?

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Logotherapy

2
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Frankl’s definition of responsibility

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the ability to respond to one’s self, one’s choices and the consequences

3
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Frankl’s view on the meaning of life

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The meaning of life is defined by the given moment

4
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Define Will to Meaning

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Striving to find a meaning in one’s life. The primary, most powerful motivating and driving force in humans.

5
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How is meaning to life found

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It is detected: it already lives inside of us

6
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How do we detect our meaning?

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through the pull of our values

7
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What is one freedom that cannot be taken away?

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to choose ones attitude in a set of circumstances

8
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Define existential frustration

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Occurs when will to meaning is frustrated; neither pathological or pathogenic

9
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Define existential vacuum

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loss of feeling that life is meaningful

10
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Why does boredom exist?

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Exists that we may escape inactivity and do justice to the meaning of life

11
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Define ‘Sunday neurosis’

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depression due to lack of content in one’s life, made manifest once the work week is over.

12
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What is the existential vacuum often masked by?

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Will to power and will to pleasure

13
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Three ways to discover meaning in life

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  1. Doing a deed
  2. Experiencing a value
  3. By suffering
14
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What is the formula for despair?

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Suffering - meaning

15
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What are the three levels humans live on?

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Somantic, Mental, Spiritual

16
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Define psychogenic neuroses

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Arises from unrealistic anxiety: depression comes from neurotic/ moral overload

17
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Define noo-genic neuroses

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originating in the spiritual frustration of human existence: anxiety is a sense of unfulfilled responsibility

18
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Define psychodynamics

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attempts to reduce psychological tension

19
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Define noo-dynamics

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operates on “tension is necessary for health and meaning”

20
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According to noo-dynamics, increased tension can bring about what?

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reorientation toward meaning

21
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Define logotherapy

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Focuses on the search and reorientation toward meaning of life