Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning by Victor Frankl

Author:Victor Frankl [Frankl, Victor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Psychology, General, Emotions, essays, Grief & Loss, history, Movements, Existential, Humanistic, Psychoanalysis, Psychopathology, Anxieties & Phobias, depression, Psychotherapy, Suicide, Holocaust, philosophy, Humanism, Religion, Psychology of Religion
ISBN: 9780738203546
Google: _hcQAQAAMAAJ
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2000-08-11T00:15:59.834523+00:00

The voice of dissent is not easily heard in psychiatric America. We are in an era when the sine qua non of publication in many a psychiatric journal is a dynamic formulation of the problem in oral, anal or Oedipal terms. We are in an era when to disagree with psychoanalysis is more liable to lead to a gratuitous diagnosis and dynamic formulation of the disagreer than it is to an examination of the arguments advanced. Indeed, by diagnosing the opposition, the ideas advanced are rendered grist for the interpretative mill rather than propositions to be refuted. But can it be that only psychoanalysts have opinions while the rest of us have problems? Dr. Burness Moore, chairman of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s public information committee, writes in that Association’s newsletter: “Indeed, there is indication of increasing derogation of analysis in the past few years,” and the Association has hired a public relations consultant.

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