Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1968 — Page 3
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1968
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Psychiatrist says man s greatest need to find meaning in his life
By ERNESE BOYTNON i Three years in A u s c h w itz and Dachau convinced psychia* trist Viktor Frankl that man’s greatest need is to find meaning in his life. The following are a few quotable quotes by Dr. Frankl: . M You cannot invent a meaning for your life. You have to discover it.” “The pursuit of happiness is self-defeating. The more you directly seek pleasure, the more it eludes you. Happiness is a byproduct, a side effect of a reason to be happy; a person to love, a cause to be committed to, a God to serve.” “Education should be education in the ability to decide.” “Man needs tension or challenge. If he is spared tension by this affluent, air-conditioned society of ours — a society where man is pampered and spoiled by the softness of modem culture — then he will get his tension in other ways.” “Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as sacrifice. Viktor Frankl is more than a brillant /nd creative phychotherapist. He is a wise mar, a philosopher in the fullest sense of the word. His views are a challenge to modem man to go beyond the false emphasis and half-truths he has come to revere. Many people today go to a
psychiatrist with spiritual problems, - Frankl claims. The main reason, he believes, is the “collective neurosis” of our day, the feeling that life has no meaning. Frankl insists, on the contrary, that life does have may be difficult to
leaning. It gra^v it may be virtually impossible to express adequately in words, but it is there. The religious man, he feels, continues to see life not just as “a task” but as “a mission.” But the feeling of emptiness caused by loss of traditions has left many men a prey to conformity. In addition, “boredom is now’ causing, and certainly bringing to psychiatrists, more problems than is distress.’ This same lack of meaning drives many people to compensate by seeding money or sexual pleasure. Frankl criticizes psychology for debunking beliefs and values and stresses the need for the psychotherapist to help the patient build values rather than tear them down. He attacks those who view man as a product of heredity and environment rather than as a free, self-determined being. And he disagrees with those who claim the aim of human existence is “self-ac|ualization.” For Frankl, the real aim of human existence is “self-transcendence,” rising above self. Similarly, he charges the followers of Freud with
overempasizing instincts and drives. What needs emphasis today, in his view, is the spirit of man. Yet, in spite of his insistence on the importance of a more relevant, comprehensive psychtherapy, Frankl is opposed to making a religion of it. The two are different, though they do not conflict, hear gues. The aim of psychotherapy is “to heal the soul, to make it heathy,” whereas the aim of religion is “to save the soul.” Two of Viktor Frankl’s books are available in English. The Doctor and the Soul, published by Knopf, and Man’s Search for Mleaning, which this column has very briefly summarized. The latter is available in a paperback edition published by Washington Square Press. Both books are exciting reading. Writing about life in concentration camps, Frankl said the most depressing aspect of the camps was not knowing how long you would remain there. Many prisoners stopped living for the future and regressed to the past or just vegetated. But some achieved a victory through their suffering, “turning life into an inner triumph.” Frankl repeatedly quotes a line from Nietzsche, “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.” For example, one prisoner of-
fered God his own sufferings and death for the sake of someone he loved. That man. Viktor Frankl noted, suffered very well, because his suffering had some meaning. (ANP Feature.)
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TECHNICIAN: In Bethesda, Md, a laboratory technician who helps conduct and write about cancer research is Mrs. Ernest (Patricia) Middleton. For 2 years, she has been assisting physicians at the National Institutes of Health who are exploring the role of hormones in cancer of the breast, uterus, and prostrate. Hormones, which are the chemicals secreted from the endocrine glands, are under intensive study because hormones may determine whether a body organ will grow normally or abnormally. Before
joining the staff of the nation's primary health research agency, Mrs. Middleton worked as a laboratory technician at the University of Washington Medical School, Seattle, Wash. She earned her Bachelor of Science Education degree from Morgan State College, Baltimore, Md.,. in 1961. Mrs. Middleton is shown with Dr. Bert O'Malley center) and Dr. Peter Kohler studying cells in tissue culture. She and Dr. O'Malley have co-authored two research reports.
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Evening school enrollment at Attacks slated Enrollment for evening school at Crispus A 11 u c k s High School is Jan. 15-18 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Students may take courses toward eama high school diploma. Classes begin Jan. 22. Vocational education, special education,. advancement oh the job, business education and homemaking courses will be offered. All academic and vocational classes are open to both graduates and undergraduates. Classes will be available, in addition to those previously mentioned, in art, English, industrial arts, foreign language, mathematics, music, physic a 1 education, social studies, science and pre-high school. Adult counseling is from 1 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Counselors are available from p p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in the Counselor’s Center for counseling any adult in\the community in regard to education and
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Alexander M. Moore is principal. Charles Walker is evening school director. Teacher charged with immoral sex relations NEW ORLEANS — (NPI)— Charged along with three others oi; commiting crimes against ripture in an automobile parked flong the Behrman Highway jvas a public school teacher, 31-year-old Herman Grant of Algiers, just across the river from the main part of New Orleans. Those arrested with Grant were Lionel Brice, 25; Elliot Newerls, IT; and Alphonse Mosby, 18. In addition Grant was alleged to have offered the a r r esting police money tp let the four go free. He did .not have cash, they say, and so he gave the police a check signed with his name. The police say they accepted the check so they could have evidence of the bribe offered and indisputable proof that Grant was the person offering it.
Marine Sgt. Gregory McCray. son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry McCray of 733 W. 13th, has been killed in action in Vietnam. Funeral services were held Jan. 4 in St. Bridget Catholic Church where he was a member. Burial was in Crown Hill Cemetery. Sgt. McCray was killed Dec. 19 when a mine blew up near Da Nang while he was on a mine-sweeping operati o n. He had re-enlisted so he could fight in Vietnam his father said. The re-enlistment came in September after the Indianapolis Leatherneck had served two previous assignment was as hn instructor in Japan. Sgt. McCray, a graduate of-Qrispus Attucks High School, is survived by his parents^ one sister, Mrs. Corrine Burnett, Indianapolis, and a half-brother, Howard K. Tandy, Chicago.
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