Viktor E. Frankl collection, 1924-1998.

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Viktor E. Frankl collection, 1924-1998.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/739735342

The collection consists of extensive article and book chapter reprints by and about Frankl and logotherapy, also correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, audiocassettes, and videotapes representing Frankl's thought and work, primarily from his lecture and teaching trips in the United States. Included are materials collected from J. Randolph Sasnett who had sponsored Frankl's first lecture tours of the United States. Included also are materials collected from Vera Lieban-Kalmar, a practioner of logotherapy.

28 boxes, 4 folios; (11 linear feet)

Graduate Theological Union, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8111564

Graduate Theological Union, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library

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Fabry, Joseph B.

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Leslie, Robert C. (Robert Campbell), 1917-

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Lukas, Elisabeth S.

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Lieban-Kalmar, Vera.

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Sasnett, J. Randolph, 1890-1978.

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

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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 Ma...