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Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist and psychotherapist who developed the psychological approach known as logotherapy, widely recognized as the ‘third school’ of Viennese psychotherapy. Frankl’s theory was that the individual’s primary motivation is the search for meaning in life.
Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) [1] was an Austrian neurologist, psychologist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, [2] who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. [3]
2612 quotes from Viktor E. Frankl: '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.', 'When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.', and 'Those who have a 'why' to live, can ...
Sep 7, 2023 · Viktor Frankl coined the term logotherapy based on his belief that the search for meaning, even amidst suffering, can constitute a potential solution to human suffering.
Mar 26, 2019 · A survivor of Nazi concentration camps during World War II, he is most well known for his belief that no matter what challenges you face in life, you always have the ultimate...
In this rare clip from 1972, legendary psychiatrist and Holocaust-survivor Viktor Frankl delivers a powerful message about the human search for meaning -- and the most important gift we can give others.
1921. At the age of 15, Frankl offers his first public lecture, On the Meaning of Life. His sensibility for social inequality leads him to become a functionary of the Young Socialist Workers. 1923. Frankl becomes increasingly attracted to the Adlerian movement of Individual Psychology, with its emphasis on community and social reform. 1924.
Jun 7, 2024 · Viktor Frankl was a young and successful Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist when Adolf Hitler and the Nazis invaded Austria in 1938. Frankl was Jewish, and in 1942 he and his family — his pregnant wife Tilly, his parents and his brother — were deported from Vienna to a Nazi-run "ghetto" in Czechoslovakia and then to ...
With a lifetime that spanned most of the 20th Century, Viktor Emil Frankl (March 26, 1905 –September 2, 1997) was witness to a transformative period in world history. He is most known for being a Holocaust survivor, but in reality, this represented a short period in his long life.
Viktor E. Frankl was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School. He spent three years during World War II in concentration camps, including Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Dachau, where he formulated many of his key ideas.
