2012
The term Choice Point indicates a place of branching, a point of possibility. The point of transformation. This remarkable, new documentary points the way to mankind's Choice Point, the ...
74 min
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“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
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In this TV interview from 1972, Viennese psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, author of “Man’s Search for Meaning,” explains the question of meaning and the central role it plays in his Logo therapy.
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Viktor Frankl’s theory and therapy grew out of his experiences in Nazi death camps. He saw that people who had hopes of being reunited with loved ones or who had projects they felt a need to complete or who had great faith, tended to have better chances than those who had lost all hope.
Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentration camps, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna.
Viktor Frankl’s riveting account of his time in the Nazi concentration camps, and his insightful exploration of the human will to find meaning in spite of the worst adversity, has offered solace and guidance to generations of readers since it was first published in 1946.
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