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My interest in intergenerational trauma, resilience, and finding a sense of purpose led me to the work of Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl. I have been intrigued by Viktor Frankl’s recapitulation of his brutal experiences in the concentration camps of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Kaufering, and Türkheim, and his groundbreaking analysis of how a sense of purpose and meaning gave the emasculated, decrepit, and denigrated inmates of those camps the will to survive.
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Khan, N.A. (2021). Finding Purpose and Meaning in the Sturm and Drang of the Unredressed Agonies of the Past. In: Educational Strategies for Youth Empowerment in Conflict Zones. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66226-4_7
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