Symposium will be held at
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417 Reigert’s Lane
Annville, PA 17003
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/ Finding Meaning in Life
Reflections on the
Teaching of Viktor Frankl

Saturday,

September 26, 2015

9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Presented by Central Pennsylvania Institute for Mental Health (CPIMH)
Finding Our Purpose
Spiritual leaders and philosophers increasingly speak of the vital importance for humans to find a meaning and purpose in life. Mental health specialists have documented the devastating effect when individuals suffer a loss of meaning.
Viktor Frankl, a Viennese psychiatrist, wrote of this search from the depths of his suffering and loss in Nazi concentration camps, and offered guidelines to find meaning and purpose in life.
This symposium will offer an opportunity to become acquainted with Dr. Frankl’s life and contributions in a brief presentation by Dr. George Simms, a former student of Dr. Frankl.
This will be followed by several testimonials of panel members in their personal search for meaning.
The symposium will conclude with an opportunity for questions and discussion. /

Program Schedule

8:30 AM Registration/ Light
Breakfast
9:00 AM Welcome and Introduction:
Douglas Ockrymiek, DO
9:05 AM Brief video of Viktor Frankl
9:10 AM Reflections on Frankl’s
Approach to Finding
Meaning: George Simms, MD
9:25 AM Three Panelists Reflect on
their Personal Search for
Meaning:
·  John Biever, MD
·  Joseph Dreiss, Ph.D.
·  Kathleen Luken
10:00 AM Break
10:10 AM Questions and Discussion:
Charles Gilbert, II, ACSW
11:00 AM Adjournment
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose” – Viktor E. Frankl /
Speakers
John Biever, MD, Adult and Child Psychiatrist, Quittie Glen*
Joseph Dreiss, Ph.D., Clinical psychologist in private practice in Harrisburg, PA*
Charles Gilbert, II, ACSW, Clinical social worker, Quittie Glen*
Kathleen Luken, Writer and poet, Manheim, PA
Douglas Ockrymiek, DO, Adult and Geriatric Psychiatrist, Behavioral Healthcare Corporation, Lancaster, PA*
George Simms, MD, Emeritus Chair of Family Medicine, Penn State M.S. Hershey Medical Center*
*CPIMH Faculty
*Faculty, CPIMH