Title: Viktor Frankl--recollections : an autobiography /
Authors: Frankl, Viktor E. 1905-1997.
Publisher: Insight Books,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Frankl, Viktor E.; Frankl, Viktor E.; Frankl, Viktor E.; Psychotherapy; Psychiatry; Psychiatrists Austria Biography.; Logotherapy.
Abstract: Frankl, founder of the Logotherapy school of psychotherapy, recalls his childhood, youth, early disagreements with Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler, his experiences in the Nazi concentration camps Dachau and Auschwitz, his postwar lecture tours, and his meetings with famous figures.
Contents: My childhood. -School days. -Arguments with psychoanalysis. -Psychiatry as my chosen profession. -The influence of the physician. -Philosophical questions. -Encounter with individual psychology. -The beginnings of logotherapy. -Theory and practice: youth counseling centers. -The years of medical apprenticeship. -The "Anschluss" of Austria. -Resisting euthanasia. -Tilly. -The concentration camps. -Deportation. -Auschwitz. -Collective guilt. -Vienna: my return and my writing. -Encounters with philosophers. -Lectures around the world. -On aging. -Audience with the Pope. -Suffering and meaning.