Viktor E. Frankl

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose...

Born in 1905 in the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, Viktor Frankl was a witness to the great political, philosophical, and scientific upheavals of the twentieth century. In these stirring recollections, Frankl describes how as a young doctor of neurology in prewar Vienna his disagreements with Freud and Adler led to the development of "the third Viennese School of Psychotherapy," known as logotherapy; recounts his harrowing trials...

Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning sold over 10 million copies and was translated into over 30 languages and was deemed by a survey of the Library of Congress one of "the ten most influential books in America". This volume introduces and presents translations of a number of important but less well-known writings by Viktor Frankl, translated from the original German, in which he forthrightly relates psychology to religious concepts. These cast a strong,...

Der weltberühmte Arzt und Psychologe hatte eine unerschütterlich optimistische Sicht auf den Menschen. Egal welche Umstände, Erbanlagen oder äußeren Einflüsse wir vorfinden: Das Wesentliche des Menschen ist seine Freiheit, und Sinn und Verantwortung, wie wir mit unserem Leben umgehen, liegen in unserer Hand. Frankls Nachdenken über die Folgen unserer Freiheit sind hoch aktuell: Wie sehr nehmen wir Einfluss auf die eigene Lebensgestaltung? Ergreifen...