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Viktor Frankl
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It is true, Logotherapy, deals with the Logos; it deals with Meaning. Specifically I see Logotherapy in helping others to see meaning in life.
— Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning (1997)
Viktor Frankl
Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905–1997)
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A psychiatrist who survived Auschwitz and turned his observations of suffering into a psychotherapy built on one premise: meaning, not pleasure or power, is what keeps people alive.
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Viktor Emil Frankl was born in Vienna on 26 March 1905 and trained as a neurologist and psychiatrist. He developed logotherapy — a school of psychotherapy positioning the search for life's meaning as the central human motivator — which he promoted as the third Viennese school after Freud's and Adler's. Then came the camps. Frankl survived multiple Nazi concentration camps, and what he witnessed there became the foundation of his best-selling autobiographical work, Man's Search for Meaning. He went on to write 39 books, anchoring existential and humanistic psychology with a framework forged in…
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Viktor Frankl
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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. p. 32 in the 1992 edition, , Beacon Press
— Originally published as Trotzdem Ja Zum Leben Sagen : Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Nevertheless, Say "Yes" to Life: A
Viktor Frankl
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.
— p. 126 in the 1984 Pocket Books edition
Viktor Frankl
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You may of course ask whether we really need to refer to "saints." Wouldn't it suffice just to refer to decent people? It is true that they form a minority.
— Postscript 1984 : The Case for a Tragic Optimism, based on a lecture at the Third World Congress of Logotherapy, Regensburg University (19
Viktor Frankl
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.
— p. 67 in the 1959 Beacon Press edition
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