Viktor Frankl
Viktor Frankl · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychiatrist who founded logotherapy and wrote Man's Search for Meaning
1905, Vienna, Austria — 1997, Vienna, Austria
Austria
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Viktor Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy centred on the human search for meaning. A survivor of Auschwitz and other camps, where much of his family perished, he distilled his experience into 'Man's Search for Meaning' (1946), one of the most influential books of the century. He was Jewish.
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Psychiatrist who founded logotherapy and wrote Man's Search for Meaning
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