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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 write is the aim of traditional Freudian psychotherapy?

2. What did the more "prominent" prisoners, the Capo, develop in camp?

3. What kind of neuroses result from existential frustration?

4. In contrast to psychoanalysis, what does Frankl claim logotherapy is centered around?

5. After the liberation of the camp, why does the SS take most of the remaining prisoners?

Short Essay Questions

1. In logotherapy, what is the supra-meaning?

2. What prompted Frankl to speak to the prisoners about hope? What did he say?

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

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

5. What is the importance of suffering for Frankl?

6. What does Frankl observe about sexuality in the concentration camp?

7. According to Frankl, what allowed the prisoners to be able to predict their deaths?

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

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

10. What happened when a patient who had been through psychoanalysis went to logotherapy? What difference between these approaches does Frankl illustrate with this account?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Frankl's description of life in camp deals mostly with his own experience and the experiences of the men he was surrounded by. Women and children are nearly absent. Describe how you imagine life for a woman or child living under these circumstances might be different. Do you believe they would live through the same mental stages?

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

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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