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Frankl, Viktor Emil


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Frankl, Viktor E(mil), b. Vienna, March 26, 1905, d. Vienna, Sept. 2, 1997, psychiatrist, neurologist. 1936-1942 specialist in psychiatry in Vienna; until 1945 detention in various concentration camps; 1946-1970 head of the Department of Neurology at the Allgemeine Poliklinik hospital in Vienna; from 1955 Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna; guest professorships in the USA; from 1970 Professor of Logotherapy at San Diego International University. Founder of logotherapy and existential analysis, which aims at helping patients find a meaning in life.


Works: Ärztliche Seelsorge (The Doctor and the Soul), 1946; Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager, 1946; Theorie und Therapie der Neurosen, 1956; Handbuch für Neurosenlehre und Psychotherapie, 5 vols., 1959-1961 (ed.); Der Mensch vor der Frage nach dem Sinn, 1979; Trotzdem ja zum Leben sagen (Man's Search for Meaning), 1986; Der Wille zum Sinn, 1991; Psychotherapie für den Alltag, 1992; Logotherapie und Existenzanalyse, 1994; Was nicht in meinen Büchern steht. Lebenserinnerungen, 1995.

Literature: E. Lukas, Von der Tiefen- zur Höhenpsychologie, 1983; A. Längle, V. F. Ein Porträt, 1998; Journal: Journal des V.-F.-Inst. Wien, 1993ff.


 
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