Frankl, Viktor E. (Viktor Emil), 1905-1997

Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) was born in Vienna, Austria. While a medical student at the University, he began to develop a form of therapy based on existentialism which seeks to "wrest meaning from life" by turning "suffering into a human triumph" calling it logotherapy. He became a psychiatrist and worked in Vienna until 1942 when he was deported to the Nazi concentration camps. He survived and returned to Vienna in 1946. The same year he published From Death Camp to Existentialism later titled Man's Search for Meaning based on his experiences in the camps. He practiced logotherapy in Vienna, lecturing and writing extensively throughout the world for the remainder of his life. Robert C. Leslie was a student of Frankl's and was instrumental in teaching and writing on logotherapy and promoting Frankl's lectures and workshops in the United States. Joseph B. Fabry and Elisabeth S. Lukas were students of, then practiced, taught, and wrote extensively in logotherapy.

From the description of Viktor E. Frankl collection, 1924-1998. (Graduate Theological Union). WorldCat record id: 739735342

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