Bibliograph

Viktor Frankl's search for meaning, an emblematic 20th-century life, Timothy E. Pytell

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Viktor Frankl's search for meaning, an emblematic 20th-century life, Timothy E. Pytell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Viktor Frankl's search for meaning

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Timothy E. Pytell

Series statement

Making sense of history, studies in historical cultures, volume 23

Sub title

an emblematic 20th-century life

Summary

"Viktor Frankl was a psychiatrist and philosopher who survived the Holocaust and went on to found the third school of Viennese psychotherapy. This book is an intellectual biography of Frankl, describing his early immersion in Freudianism, his connection to Alfred Adler, and the development of logotherapy in the 1930s. After the Holocaust, Frankl took on a prominent public role as a survivor in postwar Austria, and in the United States as part of the humanistic psychology movement. By critically examining the details of his intellectual life, including some previously unknown biographical details, we can begin to see the fascinating ambiguities and contradictions in Frankl's thought"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Viktor Frankl and man's search for meaning -- The first attempt to find meaning -- The second attempt to find meaning -- Frankle's ordination: from theory to praxis -- The third Viennese school of psychotherapy -- The doctor persevers -- Surviving and working through to redemption -- The flight into the spiritual -- Forgetting, reconfiguring, and vergangheitsbewaltigung -- Frankl in America: transcending the angel beast

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