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Viktor Frankl
Austrian Holocaust survivor, neurologist, psychologist, philosopher, and author (–)
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| Born | Viktor Emil Frankl ()26 March Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 2 September () (aged&#;92) Vienna, Austria |
| Resting place | Vienna Central Cemetery |
| Alma&#;mater | University of Vienna (MD, ; PhD, ) |
| Occupation(s) | neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, and author |
| Known&#;for | Logotherapy Existential analysis |
| Spouse(s) | Tilly Grosser, m. – c. – (her death) Eleonore Katharina Schwindt, m. |
| Children | 1 daughter |
Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March – 2 September )[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] Logotherapy is part of existential and humanistic psychology theories.[4]
Logotherapy was promoted a
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March Viktor Emil Frankl is born in Vienna as the second of three children. His mother, Elsa Frankl, nee Lion, hails from Prague, his father Gabriel Frankl, Director in the Ministry of Social Service, comes from Southern Moravia.
During the first World War the family experiences bitter deprivation; sometimes the children would go begging to farmers.
In his high school years Frankl attends public lectures on Applied Psychology. He starts a correspondence with Sigmund Freud. A manuscript he sends to Freud is published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
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.
Frankl becomes increasingly attracted to the Adlerian movement of Individual Psychology, with its emphasis on community and social reform.
Frankl is studying medicine at the University of
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Viktor E. Frankl, who used his experiences as a prisoner in German concentration camps in World War II to write Man's Search for Meaning, an enduring work of survival literature, and to open new avenues for modern psychotherapy, died on Tuesday in Vienna. He was 92 and was considered to be one of the gods of the great Viennese psychiatrists.
He died of heart failure, the International Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy said yesterday.
Viktor Frankl's mother, father, brother and pregnant wife were all killed in the camps. He lost everything, he said, that could be taken from a prisoner, except 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."
Every day in the camps, he said, prisoners had moral choices to make about whether to submit internally to those in power who threatened to rob them of their inner self and their freedom. It was the way a prison