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id: love-against-hate-20260505-1
file: data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Against_Hate-1.md
category: reference
title: Love Against Hate
tags: science, encyclopedia
source_url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Against_Hate
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== Critical reception == Love against Hate received critical acclaim. Critics mostly praised the book for its comprehensive and provocative manner of discussing the war of our instinctual forces and its consequences for the human kind. The British Journal of Psychiatry calls it an "interesting and provocative work”. The American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation compliments Menninger's piece of work as an “extremely well written stimulating and illuminating discussion of psychological and psychoanalytic areas of study and experience”. Furthermore, the journal appreciates the psychiatrist's practical suggestions for therapy as “it will leave the therapist with a much more comprehensive understanding of love and hate in human nature and the bearing of these powerful sources upon the problems of therapy”. Lastly, the Journal of the American Medical Association emphasized in its review the importance of Menninger's book for society in stating that “such wisdom is needed today more than ever before, for an explosive individual or national outburst of temper of a series of badly mixed signals might blow us all away”. == Context == Karl Menninger's piece of work was published in 1942, a time during which the world was "set on fire". Love against Hate was first brought


id: mama-dispatches-from-the-frontline-of-love-20260505-0
file: data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama:_Dispatches_from_the_Frontline_of_Love-0.md
category: reference
title: Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love
tags: science, encyclopedia
source_url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama:_Dispatches_from_the_Frontline_of_Love
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Antonella Gambotto-Burke's first influential work of nonfiction about motherhood, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love is an anthology of personal essays and interviews with some of the world's leading experts on family and childcare, including Sheila Kitzinger, Steve Biddulph, Stephanie Coontz, Gabor Maté, and others. A number of the essays were previously published in different editions of Vogue (magazine) and Elle (magazine). Professor Michel Odent wrote the foreword. Identified as one of the most empowering feminist quotes of all time, the book's most famous line is "Life without femininity - devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a woman's love - is no life at all." == Core theories == In a piece for The Australian, Gambotto-Burke wrote, "The most compelling evidence for attachment parenting was the discovery that the brain is only 20 per cent or so complete at birth; the rest is physically formed by the child’s experience of love or of its absence. Love literally creates the neural pathways responsible for happiness, calmness, closeness, co-operation, self-regulation. In particular, the second six months of life, known as the 'bonding window' to psychologists, are critical to the child’s future ability to sustain relationships." Gambotto-Burke believes


id: mama-love-motherhood-and-revolution-20260505-0
file: data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama:_Love,_Motherhood_and_Revolution-0.md
category: reference
title: Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution
tags: science, encyclopedia
source_url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama:_Love,_Motherhood_and_Revolution
date_saved: 2026-05-05T08:54:19.915681+00:00
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parent: mama-love-motherhood-and-revolution-20260505-0
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Antonella Gambotto-Burke's first influential work of nonfiction about motherhood, Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution is an anthology of personal essays and interviews with some of the world's leading experts on family and childcare, including Sheila Kitzinger, Steve Biddulph, Stephanie Coontz, Gabor Maté, and others. A number of the essays were previously published in different editions of Vogue and Elle. Professor Michel Odent wrote the foreword. Identified as one of the most empowering feminist quotes of all time, the book's most famous line is, "Life without femininity - devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a woman's love - is no life at all." == Core theories == In a piece for The Australian, Gambotto-Burke wrote, "The most compelling evidence for attachment parenting was the discovery that the brain is only 20 per cent or so complete at birth; the rest is physically formed by the child’s experience of love or of its absence. Love literally creates the neural pathways responsible for happiness, calmness, closeness, co-operation, self-regulation. In particular, the second six months of life, known as the 'bonding window' to psychologists, are critical to the child’s future ability to sustain relationships." Gambotto-Burke believes that the breakdown in


id: man-s-search-for-meaning-20260505-0
file: data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning-0.md
category: reference
title: Man's Search for Meaning
tags: science, encyclopedia
source_url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning
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Man's Search for Meaning (German: ... trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen. Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager, lit. '... Say Yes to Life nonetheless: A Psychologist Experiences the Concentration Camp') is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose to each person's life through one of three ways: the completion of tasks, caring for another person, or finding meaning by facing suffering with dignity. Frankl observed that among the fellow inmates in the concentration camp, those who survived were able to connect with a purpose in life to feel positive about and who then immersed themselves in imagining that purpose in their own way, such as conversing with an (imagined) loved one. According to Frankl, the way a prisoner imagined the future affected their longevity. The book intends to answer the question "How was everyday life in a concentration camp reflected in the mind of the average prisoner?" Part One constitutes Frankl's analysis of his experiences in the concentration camps, while Part Two introduces his ideas of meaning and his theory for the link between people's health and their


id: man-s-search-for-meaning-20260505-1
file: data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning-1.md
category: reference
title: Man's Search for Meaning
tags: science, encyclopedia
source_url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning
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Shock during the initial admission phase to the camp, Apathy after becoming accustomed to camp existence, in which the inmate values only that which helps himself and his friends survive, and Reactions of depersonalization, moral deformity, bitterness, and disillusionment if he survives and is liberated. Frankl concludes that the meaning of life is found in every moment of living; life never ceases to have meaning, even in suffering and death. In a group therapy session during a mass fast inflicted on the camp's inmates trying to protect an anonymous fellow inmate from fatal retribution by authorities, Frankl offered the thought that for everyone in a dire condition there is someone looking down, a friend, family member, or even God, who would expect not to be disappointed. Frankl concludes from his experience that a prisoner's psychological reactions are not solely the result of the conditions of his life, but also from the freedom of choice he always has even in severe suffering. The inner hold a prisoner has on his spiritual self relies on having a hope in the future, and that once a prisoner loses that hope, he is doomed. Frankl also concludes that there are only two races of


id: man-s-search-for-meaning-20260505-2
file: data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning-2.md
category: reference
title: Man's Search for Meaning
tags: science, encyclopedia
source_url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man's_Search_for_Meaning
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In his book Faith in Freedom, psychiatrist Thomas Szasz states that Frankl's survivor testimony was written to misdirect, and betrays instead an intent of a transparent effort to conceal Frankl's actions and his collaboration with the Nazis, and that, in the assessment of Raul Hilberg, the founder of Holocaust Studies, Frankl's historical account contains distortions akin to Binjamin Wilkomirski's memoirs, which were translated into nine languages before being exposed as deeply problematic (and according to the most radical interpretation false) in Hilberg's 1996 Politics of Memory. Szasz's criticism of Frankl is not universally embraced. Similarly, Hilberg's allegations have been rebutted by several reviewers. Comparison between Frankl's memoirs and Wilkomirski's memoirs leveled by Szasz, however, could legitimately be dismissed altogether as an inapt and misleading analogy insofar as questions arose (and remained) as to whether or not Wilkomirski had ever been an inmate at a concentration camp, whereas this was never a question in Frankl's case: there is no doubt that he is a survivor. Briefly: Conflicting views about the nature of memory under extreme conditions, as well as the sort of instinctual opportunism (for the sake of survival) or positive thinking mentality that often (one might even say 'usually' or


id: maps-of-meaning-20260505-0
file: data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maps_of_Meaning-0.md
category: reference
title: Maps of Meaning
tags: science, encyclopedia
source_url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maps_of_Meaning
date_saved: 2026-05-05T08:54:22.276988+00:00
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Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief is a 1999 book by Canadian clinical psychologist and psychology professor Jordan Peterson. The book describes a theory for how people construct meaning, in a way that is compatible with the modern scientific understanding of how the brain functions. It examines the "structure of systems of belief and the role those systems play in the regulation of emotion", using "multiple academic fields to show that connecting myths and beliefs with science is essential to fully understand how people make meaning". == Background and writing == Peterson spent more than 13 years writing the book in an attempt to "explain the meaning of history". In it, he briefly reflects on his childhood and on being raised in a Christian family. The responses to his questions about the literal truth of Biblical stories seemed ignorant, causing him to lose interest in attending church. During adolescence and early adulthood he tried finding the answer to "the general social and political insanity and evil of the world" (from Cold War to totalitarianism) and for a short period of time he embraced socialism and political science. Finding himself unsatisfied and falling into a depression, he discovered inspiration in


