What psychology failed to appreciate, Frankl believed, is t… - Tom Butler-Bowdon

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What psychology failed to appreciate, Frankl believed, is the multidimensional nature of human beings. He did not deny that biology or conditioning shapes us, but he also insisted that there is room for free will — to choose to develop certain values or a particular course in life, or to retain our dignity in difficult situations.

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The remarkable writings of Oliver Sacks, for instance, show that the brain continually works to create and maintain the feeling of an “I” that is in control, even if there is in fact no part of the brain that can be identified as the locus of “self feeling.

But of greater concern is the fact that psychologists tend to give progressively less attention to a motive which pervades our entire lives.

To some extent this area was foreshadowed by pioneering humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, who wrote about the self-actualized or fulfilled person, and Carl Rogers, who once noted that he was pessimistic about the world, but optimistic about people.

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