VIKTOR FRANKL
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Was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor.
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Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of existential analysis, the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy". His best-selling book Man's Search for Meaning (published under a different title in 1959: From Death-Camp to Existentialism, and originally published in 1946 as Trotzdem Ja Zum Leben Sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager, meaning Nevertheless, Say "Yes" to Life: A Psychologist Experiences the Concentration Camp) chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate, which led him to discover the importance of finding meaning in all forms of existence, even the most brutal ones, and thus, a reason to continue living.
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Frankl became one of the key figures in existential therapy and a prominent source of inspiration for humanistic psychologists
Victor Frankl
Victor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning audiobook by Viktor E Frankl
Frankl - I Broke My Neck But That Didn't Break Me
Finding meaning in difficult times (Interview with Dr. Viktor Frankl)
Search for Meaning in Life Today with Viktor Frankl
PUBLICATIONS
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The Doctor and the Soul, (originally titled Ärztliche Seelsorge), Random House, 1955.
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Psychotherapy and Existentialism. Selected Papers on Logotherapy, Simon & Schuster,New York, 1967.
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The Will to Meaning. Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy, New American Library, New York, 1988
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The Unheard Cry for Meaning. Psychotherapy and Humanism, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2011
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Viktor Frankl Recollections: An Autobiography.; Basic Books, Cambridge, MA 2000.
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Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning. (A revised and extended edition of The Unconscious God; with a Foreword by Swanee Hunt). Perseus Book Publishing, New York, 1997; ISBN 0-306-45620-6. Paperback edition: Perseus Book Group; New York, July 2000;