by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Aug 8, 2022 | Anxiety, Depression, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Uncategorized
We live in an age of affluence in many respects. The mass media bombard us with stimuli and we have to protect ourselves against them by filtering them, as it were. We are offered a lot of possibilities and have to make our choice among them. In short, we have to make...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Aug 1, 2022 | Anxiety, Depression, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth
Again, Frankl said this in The Will to Meaning in 1969 – over 50 years ago!! Today we live in an age of crumbling and vanishing traditions. Thus, instead of new values being created by finding unique meanings, the reverse happens. Universal values are on the...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jul 18, 2022 | Depression, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Uncategorized
In the 1969 book The Will to Meaning, Dr. Frankl discusses his views on using medication to treat “endogenous”, or physically manifested, depression, suggesting that in some situations, medication or even ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, might be warranted....
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jul 3, 2022 | Anxiety, Depression, MBTI Certified, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Wellness
Happy Independence Day! “Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.”...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jun 27, 2022 | Anxiety, Depression, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Spirituality
I hope you were looking forward to this as much as I was. If you listened to Homo Noeticus 1, you know the author, Dr. Ann Graber, had a profound impact on my career and professional trajectory. I hope I honored her well with the recording of her speech from 2005...
by Dr. Daniel A. Franz | Jun 20, 2022 | Anxiety, Depression, Meaning, Mental Health, Personal Growth
I’ve been meaning to share this with you for quite a while – probably since I started The Meaning Project Podcast. “Homo Noeticus” is the name Dr. Ann V. Graber gives to the potential evolution of humankind in her 2005 speech at the World...
