Audrey Weiner
It is with sadness, but also with a sense of deep gratitude, that we take leave of Audrey Weiner who peacefully died in her sleep last night. We fondly remember her especially since she was one of the very first students of Logotherapy before the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy of South Africa was established when, at its inception, a Logotherapy training was still being offered at the Centre of Applied Psychology at the University of South Africa. Upon completion of her training as a Diplomate Clinician, Audrey, along with her close friends and colleagues, Sue Jackson and Wendy Hendler, became one the first trainers of our Logotherapy programs, a post she faithfully and committedly held for a number of years.
Her person as a Logotherapist is beautifully and rivetingly captured in my prescribed book for the VFISA courses: The Life-changing Impact of Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy, Chapter 5, pp. 106-113, under the subtitle: Grief as a gift, in which Audrey discusses the impact of what Frankl termed: experiential values and attitudinal values after the death of her beloved husband.
Frankl referred to the angel, the purity of spirit, within all of us. Only if that spirit is trampled under foot does it turn into a demon. Audrey remained an angel, all her life long. Only the most beautiful, gentle, compassionate and kind features of optimal being earmarked who she was. She truly became a person of great moral stature - the person she was created and meant to be.
Ecce Homo, Audrey!
Teria Shantall
