Viktor Frankl (1905 to 1997) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who survived multiple Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War and afterward founded logotherapy, an existential approach holding that the search for meaning, not pleasure or power, is the primary human motivation. His account of the camps and his method became foundational to existential and humanistic psychology. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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BirthplaceVienna, Austria-Hungary 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionFounded logotherapy and, through his own account of surviving the concentration camps, gave existential psychology its most widely read case for meaning as the central human motive. 1 Notable WorkMan's Search for Meaning (1946, English translation 1959) 1 Connections
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Viktor Emil Frankl (Austrian German: [ˈfraŋkl̩]; 26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997)
was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force.
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was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force.
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Logotherapy is a form of existential therapy developed by neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl.
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