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Re:Existential Depression in Gifted Individuals by DanielBMarkham on Monday November 12, 2007 @08:09AM (#78707)
Best book for a gifted existential crisis? "Man's search for meaning." I wish I had read it as a teenager.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning

Re:Existential Depression in Gifted Individuals by hhm on Monday November 12, 2007 @08:58AM (#78716)
I read it. I'm not sure it's very specific about gifted existential crisis, or about existential crisis at all...
Re:Existential Depression in Gifted Individuals by DanielBMarkham on Monday November 12, 2007 @09:09AM (#78720)
You don't think Frankl tackles head-on the meaning of existence? I mean, he's the father of logotherapy, which, as Wiki describes it, is "a type of Existential Analysis that focuses on a 'will to meaning' as opposed to Adler's Nietzschian doctrine of 'will to power' or Freud's of 'will to pleasure;'."

Can't get much more specific about dealing with existential crises than that, right?

Re:Existential Depression in Gifted Individuals by hhm on Monday November 12, 2007 @09:12AM (#78721)
Hmmm... yes, you're right, my mistake.