PSY 305 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Optometry, Inferiority Complex, Neurosis
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Capos - prisoners who acted as trustees, having special privileges. Once lost, the will to live seldom returned. 3 phases of mental reactions to camp life. The period following his admission (shock, did not fear death) The period when he is well entrenched in camp routine (relative apathy, emotional death) Numb to gruesome things, other people"s" beatings. Regression, wish fulfillment in dreams (bread, cakes, cigarettes, warm baths) The period following his release and liberation. Delusion of reprieve - the condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. Frankl marched in the front row bc he was a psychotherapist to the capo. Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. The salvation of man is through love and in love. Intensification of inner life, refuge from emptiness, desolation, and spiritual poverty. And the light shineth in the darkness.
