by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Sep 16, 2024 | Anxiety, Depression, Logotherapy, Meaning, Mental Health
“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. If I were to sum up the entirety of Dr. Viktor Frankl’s works, as I have come to understand them, and...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Sep 9, 2024 | Anxiety, Depression, Logotherapy, Meaning, Mental Health, Psychedelic Therapy
Over two decades ago, when I first started in the industry working in adolescent substance abuse treatment, Ketamine was only a street-drug to me. A substance used in the medical field, that addicts would find illegally – often stealing in it from physicians...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Aug 12, 2024 | Anxiety, Depression, Logotherapy, Meaning, Personal Growth
35,000 decisions each day. That is the current estimate from research at Cornell University. That is a lot of opportunity to choose Meaning. Or not. Here are a few of Dr. Frankl’s thougths from Man’s Search for Menaing. “Everything can be taken from a...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Aug 5, 2024 | Anxiety, Depression, Logotherapy, Meaning, Mental Health, Uncategorized, Wellness
Although my phone says I used it 2 hours less this week, I think I’ve been spending too much time in media – social and otherwise. Maybe it’s having the Olympics on, or maybe it’s coming back to the “real world” after vacation. ...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jul 29, 2024 | Logotherapy, Meaning, Mental Health
Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jul 22, 2024 | Logotherapy, Meaning, Mental Health
Last week, I visited a concentration camp. It was not the first time I had visited this particular one. But it was the first time I visited it after studying Viktor Frankl, Logotherapy, and Man’s Search for Meaning. In that concentration camp, I was reminded...
