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Viktor E. Frankl



Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) was an Austrian psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and professor. The best-known of his many books, Man’s Search for Meaning, conveys his personal experience and professional observations as a doctor imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. His belief that the quest to find meaning is a driving force of human life was the basis for logotherapy, his revolutionary approach to psychotherapy.

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Search for Meaning in Life Today with Viktor Frankl

Viktor Frankl’s theory and therapy grew out of his experiences in Nazi death camps. He saw that people who had hopes of being reunited with loved ones or who had projects they felt a need to complete or who had great faith, tended to have better chances than those who had lost all hope.

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Man’s Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl’s riveting account of his time in the Nazi concentration camps, and his insightful exploration of the human will to find meaning in spite of the worst adversity, has offered solace and guidance to generations of readers since it was first published in 1946.

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Viktor Frankl on the Human Search for Meaning

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

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FindCenter Quotes ImageLove goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.

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Viktor Frankl: Self-Actualization Is Not the Goal

In one of his final television interviews Viennese psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, author of "Man's Search for Meaning" explains how Logo therapy's concepts of meaning and self-transcendence contrast the deterministic views of modern psychotherapy.

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The Feeling of Meaninglessness. A Challenge to Psychotherapy and Philosophy

In The Feeling of Meaninglessness, Viktor Frankl, the founder of logotherapy, a psychotherapeutic method which focus on a will to meaning as the driving force of human life, takes a look at how the modern condition affects the human search for meaning.

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The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy

Newly reissued in trade paperback, from the author of the bestselling Man's Search for Meaning--the classic book in which he first laid out his revolutionary theory of logotherapy. Dr. Viktor E.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

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The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism

The founder of logotherapy explores the uniqueness of man’s humanness, attacks the pseudo-humanism in current psychoanalysis, and presents a case for reinvesting psychoanalysis with humanism while preserving the traditions of Freudian analysis and behaviorism

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Viktor Frankl: Our Need for Meaning and Purpose

In this TV interview from 1972, Viennese psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, author of “Man’s Search for Meaning,” explains the question of meaning and the central role it plays in his Logo therapy.

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