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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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An Overview of Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy

Viktor Frankl is the founder of logotherapy, a form of psychotherapy that he developed after surviving Nazi concentration camps in the 1940s.

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Arlin Cuncic
2019
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Viktor Frankl; Psychotherapist Forged Pioneering Theory During Holocaust

Viktor E. Frankl, author of the landmark “Man’s Search for Meaning” and one of the last great psychotherapists of this century, has died of heart failure. He was 92.

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Los Angeles Times
1997
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Viktor Frankl, 92, Influential Psychiatrist

Psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl, who transformed years of suffering in Nazi concentration camps into insights for his lifelong study of people's quest for meaning, has died at age 92.

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Chicago Tribune
1997
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Obituary: Viktor Frankl

The Austrian psychiatrist and psychotherapist Viktor Frankl is best known for tracing suffering to a failure to find meaning and a sense of responsibility in life.

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Morton Schatzman
1997
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Holocaust Survivor Viktor Frankl Explains Why If We Have True Meaning in Our Lives, We Can Make It Through the Darkest of Times

In one school of popular reasoning, people judge historical outcomes that they think are favorable as worthy tradeoffs for historical atrocities. The argument appears in some of the most inappropriate contexts, such as discussions of slavery or the Holocaust.

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Josh Jones
2017
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The Question of God: Other Voices: Viktor Frankl

In spite of all the enforced physical and mental primitiveness of the life in a concentration camp, it was possible for spiritual life to deepen.

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PBS
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There’s More to Life Than Being Happy

In Frankl’s bestselling 1946 book, Man’s Search for Meaning, which he wrote in nine days about his experiences in the camps, Frankl concluded that the difference between those who had lived and those who had died came down to one thing: Meaning, an insight he came to early in life.

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Emily Esfahani Smith
2013
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Existentialist Psychologist, Auschwitz Survivor Viktor Frankl Explains How to Find Meaning in Life, No Matter What Challenges You Face

Frankl’s thesis echoes those of many sages, from Buddhists to Stoics to his 20th century Existentialist contemporaries: “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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Josh Jones
2016
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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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Maria Popova
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