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"The story of the young woman whose death I witnessed in a concentration camp. It is a simple story. There is little to tell and it may sound as if I had invented it; but to me it seems like a poem. This young woman knew that she would die in the next few days. But when I talked to her she was cheerful in spite of this knowledge. "I am grateful that fate has hit me so hard," she told me. "In my former life I was spoiled and did not take spiritual accomplishments seriously." Pointing through the window of the hut, she said, "This tree here is the only friend I have in my loneliness." Through that window she could see just one branch of a chestnut tree, and on the branch were two blossoms. "I often talk to this tree," she said to me. I was startled and didn't quite know how to take her words. Was she delirious? Did she have occasional hallucinations? Anxiously I asked her if the tree replied. "Yes." What did it say to her? She answered, "It said to me, 'I am here-I am here-I am life, eternal life.
Viktor Emil Frankl, M.D., Ph.D. (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist and a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of existential analysis, the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy". His best-selling book Man's Search for Meaning chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate which led him to discover the importance of finding meaning in all forms of existence, even the most sordid ones, and thus, a reason to continue living. Frankl became one of the key figures in existential therapy and a prominent source of inspiration for humanistic psychologists.
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الصحة النفسية تستند الى درجة كبيرة من التوتر- التوتر بين ما انجزه الفرد بالفعل وما لا يزال عليه ان ينجزه, او الفجوة بين واقع الفرد وما ينبقغي أن يصير عليه. ذلك التوتر كامن في الوجود الانساني وبالتالي فلا غنى عنه بالنسبة للصحة النفسية. وينغي اذن الا نتردد في أن نضع أمام الانسان تحديات عليه أو يواجهها بما عنده من معان كامنة عليه أن يحققها. فكل ما نفعله في هذه الحالة هو أن نستدعي إرادة المعنى عنده في حالة كمونها. وأعتبر أنه لتصور خاطئ وخطير للصحة النفسية الزعم بأن ما يحتاجه الانسان في المحل الاول هو التوازن, أو كما يعرف باستعادة الاتزان في البيولوجيا, اي حالة اللاتوتر. فليس ما يحتاجه الانسان حقيقة هو حالة اللاتوتر ولكنه يحتاج الى السعي والاجتهاد في سبيل هدف يستحق أن يعيش من أجله. فالانسان لا يحتاج الى التخلص من التوتر بأي ثمن, ولكن يحتاج الى استدعاء امكانات المعنى-ذلك المعنى الذي ينتظر أن يقوم بتحقيقه. إن ما يحتاجه الانسان ليس استعادة الاتزان ولكن ما اسميه بـ الديناميات المعنوية, في مجال للتوتر -يتمثل أحد قطبيه في المعنى اللازم تحقيقه, ويتمثل القطب الآخر في الانسان الذي ينبغي أن يقوم بتحقيقه.
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