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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822735903321

Autore

Pytell Timothy

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015

ISBN

1-78238-831-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Making sense of history ; ; volume 23

Disciplina

150.19/5092

Soggetti

Psychologists - Austria

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Psychological aspects

Biography

Biographies.

Austria

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--