Viktor E. Frankl

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born

March 26, 1905 in Vienna, Austria

died

September 02, 1997

gender

male

website

http://www.viktorfrankl.org

genre

Nonfiction, Professional & Technical

influences

Dostoevsky, Freud, Schopenhauer

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Viktor Emil Frankl M.D., Ph.D., was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of Existential Analysis, the "Third Viennese School" of psychotherapy.

His book Man's Search for Meaning (first published under a different title in 1959: From Death-Camp to Existentialism. Originally published in 1946 as Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager) chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate and describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding meaning in all forms of existence, even the most sordid ones, and thus a reason to continue living. He was one of the key figures in existential therapy.

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Average rating: 4.31 · 33,024 ratings · 2,970 reviews · 38 distinct works

	Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, Harold S. Kushner (Introduction) 4.32 avg rating — 32,076 ratings — published 1946 — 85 editions	My rating:
	Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, Victor Frankl 4.22 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy by Viktor E. Frankl, Victor E. Frankl 4.16 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 1969 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy 4.13 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1963 — 23 editions	My rating:
	The Unheard Cry for Meaning 4.18 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1979 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Unconscious God Psych 3.93 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1948 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Recollections: An Autobiography 3.47 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Ante El Vacío Existencial 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions	My rating:
	On the Theory and Therapy of Mental Disorders: An Introduction to Logotherapy and Existential Analysis 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1975 — 7 editions	My rating:
	...A přesto říci životu ano 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1996	My rating:

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“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

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