Viktor Frankl
Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor who founded logotherapy.
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- Viktor Frankl was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist and philosopher, born in Vienna in 1905.
- He founded logotherapy, which treats the search for meaning as the central human motivation.
- He survived three years in four Nazi concentration camps, including Theresienstadt and Auschwitz.
- His book Man's Search for Meaning came out in German in 1946 and in English in 1959.
Key facts
- Born
- 26 Mar 1905, Vienna1
- Died
- 2 Sep 19971
- Founded
- Logotherapy, called the third school of Viennese psychotherapy after Freud's and Adler's1
- Holocaust
- Deported to Theresienstadt in 1942 and to Auschwitz in 1944; his father, mother, brother and wife died in the camps1
- Best-known book
- Man's Search for Meaning (German 1946, English 1959)1
- Education
- Medical degree, 1930, and PhD in philosophy, 1948, University of Vienna1
- Work
- Head of the neurology department of the General Polyclinic in Vienna after the war; saw patients until he retired in 19701
- Books
- Wrote 39 books1
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