Victor Frankl was a Jewish Austrian psychiatrist who was interned in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. He lost his wife and family. Yet he emerged in triumph.
Frankl observed that many of the prisoners died when undergoing less hardship and suffering than those who survived. The survivors tended to be people who envisioned a future for themselves despite their present suffering, people who believed they had a meaning in life and did not surrender to despair.
He developed a psychological treatment method called logotherapy. According to Frankl, logotherapy is striving to find a meaning in one's life as the primary force. Frankl would help patients improve their mental health by helping them to discover meaning in their lives.
"The salvation of man is through love and in love."
"What matters is not the meaning of life in general but the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment."
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