Meaning & the journey of becoming who you are in work & beyond | Dr. Alexander Batthyany | MC6 K6

AWARDS DINNER: 6:30PM – 9:00PM Keynote Speaker, Alexander Batthyany, PhD

Coastal Mountain Ballroom Alexander Batthyany, PhD Professor, University of Vienna, and Vienna Medical School

In the late 1920s, the world economic crisis hit Europe; hundreds of thousands of young people were without work and orientation; they were desperate, depressed, apathetic. And in the midst of it, in Vienna, a young medical doctor— Viktor Frankl—tried to counsel and console these young people by trying to encourage them to make the best possible use of their “regrettable” abundance of available free time and to thereby overcome their existential vacuum and with, the false belief that only if they were employed, life would offer meaning to them.

Fifty years later, in the midst, and—as some claimed, precisely because—of immense a influence, an even growing rate of desperation, depression and apathy, along with a number of “new” psychological problems (“executive disease”, “Sunday neurosis”, “weekend depression”) brought the lesson home that even if people have enough to work and live by, what really counts for their psychological and existential well-being is the question whether they have something to live for; and whether they remain open and flexible enough to decipher the ever-changing meaning of the moment.

Another forty years later— in 2010—the economic crisis hit again, and it still seems as if the very same question still haunts us: What do I live for? What am I good for?

According to logotherapy, this is the most human question one can ask, whether with or without work—in fact, no matter what the outer circumstances are. In this talk, we will consider this question, and some concrete and practical guideposts will be given on how to find meaning in one’s life—i.e. something where each person is irreplaceable and unique; and where meaning is not something to wait for, but something to be found

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