Viktor Frankl's search for meaning : an emblematic 20th-century life /

Viktor Frankl's search for meaning : an emblematic 20th-century life /

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Author / Creator:	Pytell, Timothy, author.
Imprint:	New York : Berghahn Books, 2015. ©2015
Description:	viii, 208 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Making sense of history, studies in historical cultures ; volume 23 Making sense of history ; v. 23.
Subject:	Frankl, Viktor E. -- (Viktor Emil), -- 1905-1997. Frankl, Viktor E. -- (Viktor Emil), -- 1905-1997. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Psychologists -- Austria -- Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects. Psychological aspects. Psychologists. Austria. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10396553

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ISBN:	9781782388302 1782388303 9781782388319 1782388311
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction. Viktor Frankl and Man's Search for Meaning
Chapter 1. The First Attempt to Find Meaning
Chapter 2. The Second Attempt to Find Meaning
Chapter 3. Frankl's Ordination: From Theory to Praxis
Chapter 4. The Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy
Chapter 5. The Doctor Perseveres
Chapter 6. Surviving and Working Through to Redemption
Chapter 7. The Flight into the Spiritual
Chapter 8. Forgetting, Reconfiguring, and Vergangheitsbewältigung
Chapter 9. Frankl in America: Transcending the Angel Beast
Postscript
Sources Consulted
Index