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Autore |
Pytell Timothy |
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Titolo |
Viktor Frankl's search for meaning : an emblematic 20th-century life / / Timothy E. Pytell |
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New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Collana |
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Making sense of history ; ; volume 23 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Psychologists - Austria |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Psychological aspects |
Biography |
Biographies. |
Austria |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Viktor Frankl and Man’s Search for Meaning -- CHAPTER ONE The First Attempt to Find Meaning -- CHAPTER TWO The Second Attempt to Find Meaning -- CHAPTER THREE Frankl’s Ordination: From Theory to Praxis -- CHAPTER FOUR The Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy -- CHAPTER FIVE The Doctor Perseveres -- CHAPTER SIX Surviving and Working Through to Redemption -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Flight into the Spiritual -- CHAPTER EIGHT Forgetting, Reconfiguring, and Vergangeheitsbewältigung -- CHAPTER NINE Frankl in America Transcending the Angel Beast -- POST SCRIPT Holocaust Survival and History -- Sources Consulted -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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 |
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