The Power of Meaning
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“This is what I will teach”: Ibid.
three randomized controlled experiments: William Breitbart, Barry Rosenfeld, Christopher Gibson, Hayley Pessin, Shannon Poppito, Christian Nelson, Alexis Tomarken, et al., “Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Patients with Advanced Cancer: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial,” Psycho-Oncology 19, no. 1 (2010): 21–28; William Breitbart, Shannon Poppito, Barry Rosenfeld, Andrew J. Vickers, Yuelin Li, Jennifer Abbey, Megan Olden, et al., “Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Individual Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Patients with Advanced Cancer,” Journal of Clinical Oncology 30, no. 12 (2012): 1304–9; and William Breitbart, Barry Rosenfeld, Hayley Pessin, Allison Applebaum, Julia Kulikowski, and Wendy G. Lichtenthal, “Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy: An Effective Intervention for Improving Psychological Well-Being in Patients with Advanced Cancer,” Journal of Clinical Oncology 33, no. 7 (2015): 749–54.
“extraordinary growth”: Quoted in Beck, “A New View, after Diagnosis.”
“I didn’t have to”: Ibid.
“the deathbed test”: A version of the deathbed test appears in Peterson and Seligman, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification.
Their principal regrets: Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing (London: Hay House, 2012).
In September 1942, Frankl: I drew on the following sources for Frankl’s story: Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning; Frankl, Recollections: An Autobiography (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Basic Books, 2000); Anna Redsand, Viktor Frankl: A Life Worth Living (New York: Clarion Books, 2006); and Haddon Klingberg Jr., When Love Calls Out to Us: The Love and Lifework of Viktor and Elly Frankl (New York: Doubleday, 2002).
Emily Esfahani Smith writes about culture, psychology, and relationships. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. She is also a columnist for The New Criterion and an editor at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, where she manages the Ben Franklin Circles project, a collaboration with the 92nd Street Y and Citizen University to build community and purpose across the country. She studied philosophy at Dartmouth College and has a master’s in positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives with her husband in Washington, DC.
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