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Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) was an Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. Logotherapy is part of existential and humanistic psychology theories.Logotherapy was promoted as the third school of Viennese Psychotherapy, after those established by Sigmund Freud, and Alfred Adler.Frankl published 39 books. The autobiographical Man's Search for Meaning, a best-selling book, is based on his experiences in various Nazi concentration camps. Early life Frankl was born the middle of three children to Gabriel Frankl, a civil servant in the Ministry of Social Service, and Elsa (née Lion), a Jewish family, in Vienna, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His interest in psychology and the role of meaning developed when he began taking night classes on applied psychology while in junior high school. As a teenager, he began a correspondence with Sigmund Freud upon asking for permission to publish one of his papers. After graduation from high school in 1923, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna. In 1924, Frankl's first scientific paper was published in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. In the same year, he was president of the Sozialistische Mittelschüler Österreich, the Social Democratic Party of Austria's youth movement for high school students. Frankl's father was a socialist who named him after Viktor Adler, the founder of the party. During this time, Frankl began questioning the Freudian approach to psychoanalysis. He joined Alfred Adler's circle of students and published his second scientific paper, "Psychotherapy and Worldview" ("Psychotherapie und Weltanschauung"), in Adler's International Journal of Individual Psychology in 1925. Frankl was expelled from Adler's circle when he insisted that meaning was the central motivational force in human beings. From 1926, he began refining his theory, which he termed logotherapy. Career Psychiatry Between 1928 and 1930, while still a medical student, he organized youth counselling centers to address the high number of teen suicides occurring around the time of end of the year report cards. The program was sponsored by the city of Vienna and free of charge to the students. Frankl recruited other psychologists for the center, including Charlotte Bühler, Erwin Wexberg, and Rudolf Dreikurs. In 1931, not a single Viennese student died by suicide.After earning his M.D. in 1930, Frankl gained extensive experience at Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital, where he was responsible for the treatment of suicidal women. In 1937, he began a private practice, but the Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938 limited his opportunity to treat patients. In 1940, he joined Rothschild Hospital, the only hospital in Vienna still admitting Jews, as head of the neurology department. Prior to his deportation to the concentration camps, he helped numerous patients avoid the Nazi euthanasia program that targeted the mentally disabled.In 1942, just nine months after his marriage, Frankl and his family were sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. His father died there of starvation and pneumonia. In 1944, Frankl and the surviving members of his family were transported to Auschwitz, where his mother and brother were murdered in the gas chambers. His wife Tilly died later of typhus in Bergen-Belsen. Frankl spent three years in four concentration camps.Following the war, he became head of the neurology department of the General Polyclinic Vienna hospital, and established a private practice in his home. He worked with patients until his retirement in 1970.In 1948, Frankl earned a PhD in philosophy from the University of Vienna. His dissertation, The Unconscious God, examines the relationship between psychology and religion, and advocates for the use of the Socratic dialogue (self-discovery discourse) for clients to get in touch with their spiritual unconscious. In 1955, Frankl was awarded a professorship of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Vienna, and, as visiting professor, lectured at Harvard University (1961), Southern Methodist University, Dallas (1966), and Duquesne University, Pittsburgh (1972).Throughout his career, Frankl argued that the reductionist tendencies of early psychotherapeutic approaches dehumanised the patient, and advocated for a rehumanisation of psychotherapy.The American Psychiatric Association awarded Frankl the 1985 Oskar Pfister Award for his contributions to religion and psychiatry. Man's Search for Meaning While head of the Neurological Department at the general Polyclinic Hospital, Frankl wrote Man's Search for Meaning over a nine-day period. The book, originally titled A Psychologist Experiences the Concentration Camp, was released in German in 1946. The English translation of Man's Search for Meaning was published in 1959, and became an international bestseller. Frankl saw this success as a symptom of the "mass neurosis of modern times" since the title promised to deal with the question of life's meaningfulness. Millions of copies were sold in dozens of languages. In a 1991 survey conducted for the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club, Man's Search for Meaning was named one of the ten most influential books in the US. Logotherapy and existential analysis Frankl developed logotherapy and existential analysis, which are based on philosophical and psychological concepts, particularly the desire to find a meaning in life and free will. Frankl identified three main ways of realizing meaning in life: by making a difference in the world, by having particular experiences, or by adopting particular attitudes. The primary techniques offered by logotherapy and existential analysis are: Paradoxical intention: clients learn to overcome obsessions or anxieties by self-distancing and humorous exaggeration. Dereflection: drawing the client's attention away from their symptoms, as hyper-reflection can lead to inaction. Socratic dialogue and attitude modification: asking questions designed to help a client find and pursue self-defined meaning in life.His acknowledgement of meaning as a central motivational force and factor in mental health is his lasting contribution to the field of psychology. It provided the foundational principles for the emerging field of positive psychology. Frankl's work has also been endorsed in the Chabad philosophy of Hasidic Judaism. Controversy "Auschwitz survivor" testimony In The Missing Pieces of the Puzzle: A Reflection on the Odd Career of Viktor Frankl, Professor of history Timothy Pytell of California State University, San Bernardino, conveys the numerous discrepancies and omissions in Frankl's "Auschwitz survivor" account and later autobiography, which many of his contemporaries, such as Thomas Szasz, similarly have raised. In Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, the book devotes approximately half of.... Discover the Viktor E Frankl popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Viktor E Frankl books.

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    Decisione e crescita personale

    Domenico Bellantoni

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    Sinn und Arbeit

    Beate von Devivere

    Die Sinnsuche ist eines der aktuellsten und wichtigsten Themen des 21. Jhdt., besonders im Kontext von Arbeit. Dieses Buch setzt hier an und beschreibt den Sinn in der Arbeit ...

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    Logotherapie und Existenzanalyse heute

    Alexander Batthyány & Elisabeth Lukas

    Was würde Viktor E. Frankl heute sagen? Aktuelle Fragen zur Logotherapie in offener Diskussion Die von Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) begründete "Logotherapie und Existenzanalys...

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    Meaning

    Rubin Battino

    Meaningis a biography in play form. Using many of his own words, the play focuses on key moments in Frankl's life: it explores his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, his dev...

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    Prisioneros de nuestros pensamientos

    Alex Pattakos & Elaine Dundon

    SIETE PRINCIPIOS PARA HALLAR EL SENTIDO EN LA VIDA Y EN EL TRABAJOEl hombre en busca de sentido, del psiquiatra de renombre mundial Viktor E. Frankl, es uno de los libros más impo...

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    The Rediscovery of the Human

    Viktor E. Frankl & Shimon Dovid Cowen

    Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning sold over 10 million copies and was translated into over 30 languages and was deemed by a survey of the Library of Congress one of “the ten most i...

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    Desiree und andere ...

    Aton

    Im Buch Désirée und andere … erzählt der Autor wahre Lebensgeschichten, die wunderschön beginnen, aber allesamt in einem massiven Desaster enden. Weil die betroffenen Personen Ausw...

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    A Brief Guide to Smart Thinking

    James M. Russell

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    Viktor E. Frankl Anthology

    Timothy Lent

    Introduction to Viktor E. Frankl: The Man and His MessagePhilosopher of Meaning Viktor Emil Frankl was a philosopher of meaning. Even from his childhood days and into his ad...

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    The Inspiring Wisdom of Viktor E. Frankl

    Pam Roy & Moira Hummel

    "The primary motivation for living is to find meaning." Viktor Frankl, renowned psychiatrist and bestselling author of Man's Search for MeaningThis timely book brings the inspiring...

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    Mich in meinem Leben finden

    Inge Patsch

    Wofür es sich zu leben lohnt Der Wegweiser zu einem besseren Verständnis für sich selbst Es gibt unzählige Modelle, wie man angeblich glücklich wird. Trotzdem fehlt vielen Menschen...

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    Jesus e a logoterapia

    Robert C. Leslie

    O ministério de Jesus sempre se orientou mais para a transformação da vida do que para a terapia. O propósito básico de Jesus sempre consistiu em relacionar a pessoa mais diretamen...

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    Viktor E. Frankl. El sentido de la vida

    Elisabeth Lukas

    Esta obra constituye todo un muestrario del pensamiento y la vida de Viktor E. Frankl. En ella no sólo se recogen los principales aspectos de la logoterapia, sino que, además, los ...

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    En el principio era el sentido

    Viktor E. Frankl

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    Humble by Nature

    Kate Humble

    'You'd have to have a heart of stone not to be touched by Kate's enthusiasm for her new way of life' Daily MailIn 2007, after 20 years of living in London, Kate Humble and her hus...

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    Friend for Life

    Kate Humble

    'There is one animal that is familiar to all of us, whoever we are, wherever we live''Even if we've never had direct contact with one, we will have seen one, or at the very least, ...