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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 are noo-dynamics?
2. Why does Frankl believe that man behaves morally?
3. How does Frankl write that love is interpreted in psychotherapy?
4. What is the author's tone of voice in this, the second section, of the book?
5. What caused former prisoners to feel bitterness?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Frankl leave Auschwitz? What happened at the camp after Frankl left Auschwitz?
2. What was the third stage of a the prisoner's mental reaction? How does Frankl characterize this?
3. What is the meaning of love in logotherapy?
4. What happened when a patient who had been through psychoanalysis went to logotherapy? What difference between these approaches does Frankl illustrate with this account?
5. What does Frankl observe about sexuality in the concentration camp?
6. What has Frankl termed "noogenic neuroses"?
7. What is anticipatory anxiety?
8. What does Frankl write is the "crowning" experience for former prisoners?
9. What does Frankl write happened to prisoners who lost hope in the future?
10. What is the "existential vacuum" that Frankl describes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Frankl quotes Nietzsche multiple times in this book, writing, "He who has a why to live for can bear any how." How does this quote reflect Frankl's ideas and tone in Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy?
Essay Topic 2
Dr. Gordon W. Allport writes that Frankl "sometimes asks his patients who suffer from a multitude of torments great and small, 'Why do you not commit suicide?'" How does Frankl understand suicide? What does he advise people who feel that they do not have meaning in life, or those who plan on committing suicide because they find they can no longer expect anything from life?
Essay Topic 3
In the preface to Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy, Dr. Gordon W. Allport writes, "Somewhere beyond the midpoint of the story Dr. Frankkl introduces his own philosophy of logotherapy." Do you believe that the use of Frankl's personal history, and the examples from the time he spent in concentration camps, adds to or takes away from his description of logotherapy? Would you understand logotherapy in the same way without this background?
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