Dr. Edith Eger
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I worked with Viktor Frankl very much.
I remember we were in Germany and we danced together.
You danced together?
Yes.
Was he a good dancer?
And then he said something, is this the last tango?
I think it was Regensburg or one of those places where we had our conference.
Viktor Frankl was, like you, a kind of a Renaissance man.
He was taking flying lessons.
When I met him, he was in his 70s.
He died when he was 92.
But he was truly my mentor.
The logo therapy, logo means finding purpose and meaning in your life.
It's called the existential vacuum that most people are called clinical depression.
Yeah, well, we pathologize.
We pathologize too much.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
I think it's very good to make the diagnosis that doesn't have to pathologize like I'm sad, I'm scared.
You know, to use the language that it doesn't have to go to diagnosis and medical.