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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frankl suggest happens to "self-centeredness" in logotherapy?

2. What caused former prisoners to feel bitterness?

3. What does Frankl relate about an American diplomat who, after years of psychotherapy, went to logotherapy?

4. How does logotherapy deal with spiritual issues?

5. What does Frankl term "pan-determinism".

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Frankl describe the "will to meaning"?

2. How does Frankl describe the character of the prisoners and the guards?

3. What is the importance of suffering for Frankl?

4. What does Frankl write happened to prisoners who lost hope in the future?

5. What was the third stage of a the prisoner's mental reaction? How does Frankl characterize this?

6. What is the meaning of love in logotherapy?

7. How does Frankl compare his logotherapy to Freud's psychoanalysis?

8. What is the "existential vacuum" that Frankl describes?

9. What does Frankl argue should supplement the Statue of Liberty and why?

10. What is anticipatory anxiety?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Frankl writes about the importance of the malnutrition, or starving, of the prisoners at Auschwitz; What consequences did this have in terms of the prisoner's daily speech? How did it affect their dreams? What does Frankl argue that this starving of the prisoners prevented in camp life?

Essay Topic 2

Frankl writes, "Noogenic neuroses do not emerge from conflicts between drives and instincts but rather from conflicts between various values; in other words, from moral conflicts, or, to speak in a more general way, from spiritual problems." What role do Noogenic neuroses play in his theory of logotherapy?

Essay Topic 3

Frankl writes that the Capo and the SS had similar roles, and that they should be judged on a similar psychological basis. What did Frankl think about the psychology of these two groups?

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