Viktor Frankl
Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905-1997) · Austria · Doctors · Died at 92
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Something wrong?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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, It is true, Logotherapy, deals with the Logos; it deals with Meaning. Specifically I see Logotherapy in helping others to see meaning in life.
An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. p. 32 in the 1992 edition, , Beacon Press
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.
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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 the darkest laboratory imaginable. He died on 2 September 1997.
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