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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 did Frankl try to teach a former prisoner who felt that he could trample crops in a field because he had been through so much himself?
2. What caused former prisoners to feel bitterness?
3. What are the ways that logotherapy believes meaning in life can be found?
4. Why does Frankl believe that man behaves morally?
5. Why does Frankl use the term logotherapy?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way does Frankl argue that prisoners could retain "the last of the human freedoms?"
2. What was the third stage of a the prisoner's mental reaction? How does Frankl characterize this?
3. What opportunity does Frankl see in camp life?
4. In logotherapy, what is the supra-meaning?
5. What is the importance of suffering for Frankl?
6. What happened when a patient who had been through psychoanalysis went to logotherapy? What difference between these approaches does Frankl illustrate with this account?
7. What does Frankl write happened to prisoners who lost hope in the future?
8. According to Frankl, what allowed the prisoners to be able to predict their deaths?
9. What were some of the negative things that former prisoners had to deal with after their release?
10. What does Frankl claim happened to the inner life of prisoners in concentration camp?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Frankl writes of how two men who were contemplating suicide seemed to have lost meaning in their lives. He writes, "In both cases it was a question of getting them to realize that life was still expecting something from them; something in the future was expected of them." How does Frankl understand and describe those who commit suicide? What role does finding the meaning in their lives play for him? Does he sympathize with their despair over their feeling of meaningless and suffering? Does he understand suicide to be a choice, or a simple reaction to unfavorable circumstances? Is this understood as characteristic of neurosis?
Essay Topic 2
Logotherapy is sometimes called the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy." How does Frankl compare his to these other kinds of therapy? How does he describe his patients who have gone through other kinds of therapy?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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