biography
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Frankl, Viktor (Emil)
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| lived:
| (1905– )
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| biography:
| Psychiatrist and writer, born in Vienna, Austria. He studied at the University of Vienna (1930 MD), was imprisoned by the Nazis during World War 2, and after his release he taught at Vienna (from 1947). He went to the USA during the 1960s, when his concept of logotherapy, an existentialist approach to psychotherapy, became well known. His many books include Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy (1963), and a revised and enlarged translation of From Death-Camp to Existentialism: A Psychiatrist's Path to a New Therapy published in German in 1946. |
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