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Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) [1] was an Austrian neurologist, psychologist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, [2] who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. [3] Logotherapy is part of existential and humanistic psychology ...
Man's Search for Meaning 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 ...
- Viktor Emil Frankl
- 1946
Oct 26, 2024 · Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist and psychotherapist who developed the psychological approach known as logotherapy, widely recognized as the ‘third school’ of Viennese psychotherapy. Frankl’s theory was that the individual’s primary motivation is the search for meaning in life.
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Viktor and Tilly, and shortly later his 65 year old mother, are transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. His mother is immediately murdered in the gas chamber, and Tilly is moved to the Bergen-Belsen camp. After a few days Frankl is selected for transfer to a labor camp.
Nov 19, 2018 · Viktor E. Frankl was a highly respected psychiatrist in his native Austria when he was transported to Auschwitz in 1944. Against all odds, Frankl survived. After his liberation, and having lost his wife and his family, he wrote Man’s Search for Meaning about his experience in the death camps.
Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905–2 September 1997) was an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist, a Holocaust survivor, and the founder of logotherapy—a school of therapy centred around meaning creation, considered the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy.
Frankl’s thought process gave him meaning and helped him push through the adversity of everyday life at the camps he was imprisoned at, Auschwitz and Dachau. Instead of thinking about the life he left behind, he focused on finding meaning in every little moment.
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