Ravanshenasi & Din

The present paper tries to criticize and analyze the Viktor Frankl's standpoint on healthy personality. In defining the healthy person, he has first discussed man's two spiritual and transcendental capabilities, that is, "the ability to distance from the self" and" the ability to transcend the self"(self-transcendence), and then has expounded the indexes of the health as dependent on the extent of the realization of these capacities. According to this standpoint, the healthy man's characteristics are as follows: freedom and will, self-consciousness and responsibility, attitudinal value (creativity, love, and suffering), search for meaning (will to meaning), oneness and uniqueness, and responding to the call of the conscience. Having criticized and analyzed the above standpoint using a descriptive-analytical method, the researcher has compared it with the standpoint of the Quran and has concluded that these two standpoints are different regarding the definition, scope, and adjectives set for the "health" and the structure of a healthy person, and that instances such as inadequate attention to the origin and the end and inability to provide a comprehensive definition of such concepts as God, eternity, action, and conscience can be said to be the disadvantages of Frankl's theory.