Frankl, Viktor Emil#
b. Vienna, March 26, 1905, d. Vienna, Sept. 2, 1997, psychiatrist, neurologist. 1936-1942 specialist in psychiatry in Vienna; until 1945 detention in various concentration camps; 1946-1970 head of the Department of Neurology at the Allgemeine Poliklinik hospital in Vienna; from 1955 Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna; guest professorships in the USA; from 1970 Professor of Logotherapy at San Diego International University. Founder of logotherapy and existential analysis, which aims at helping patients find a meaning in life.
Works#
Aerztliche Seelsorge (The Doctor and the Soul), 1946; Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager, 1946; Theorie und Therapie der Neurosen, 1956; Handbuch fuer Neurosenlehre und Psychotherapie, 5 vols., 1959-1961 (ed.); Der Mensch vor der Frage nach dem Sinn, 1979; Trotzdem ja zum Leben sagen (Man's Search for Meaning), 1986; Der Wille zum Sinn, 1991; Psychotherapie fuer den Alltag, 1992; Logotherapie und Existenzanalyse, 1994; Was nicht in meinen Buechern steht. Lebenserinnerungen, 1995.Literature#
E. Lukas, Von der Tiefen- zur Hoehenpsychologie, 1983; A. Laengle, V. F. Ein Portraet, 1998; Journal: Journal des V.-F.-Inst. Wien, 1993ff.