Viktor Frankl's search for meaning
Subtitle: an emblematic 20th-century life
By: Timothy E. Pytell
Series: Making sense of history, studies in historical cultures -- volume 23; Making sense of history -- v. 23.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781782388302
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Psychologists; Biography; Psychological aspects
Description: "Viktor Frankl was a psychiatrist and philosopher who survived the Holocaust and went on to found the third school of Viennese psychotherapy. This book is an intellectual biography of Frankl, describing his early immersion in Freudianism, his connection to Alfred Adler, and the development of logotherapy in the 1930s. After the Holocaust, Frankl took on a prominent public role as a survivor in postwar Austria, and in the United States as part of the humanistic psychology movement. By critically examining the details of his intellectual life, including some previously unknown biographical details, we can begin to see the fascinating ambiguities and contradictions in Frankl's thought"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Viktor Frankl and Man's search for meaning; title: The first attempt to find meaning; title: The second attempt to find meaning; title: Frankl's ordination: from theory to praxis; title: The third Viennese school of psychotherapy; title: The Doctor perseveres; title: Surviving and working through to redemption; title: The flight into the spiritual; title: Forgetting, reconfiguring, and Vergangheitsbewältigung; title: Frankl in America: transcending the Angel Beast.