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Viktor Frankl


 

Viktor Emil Frankl, M.D., Ph.D., (March 26, 1905 - September 2, 1997) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy and Existential Analysis, the "Third Viennese School" of psychotherapy. His book Man's Search for Meaning (first published in 1946) chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate and describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding a reason to live. He was one of the key figures in existential therapy. Viktor Frankl raised chickens as a child.

Miscellaneous

  • He often said that even within the narrow boundaries of the concentration camps he got to know only two kinds of men: decent and non-decent ones.
  • Frankl once recommended the Statue of Liberty be complemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.