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Viktor and Elly Frankl had one daughter, Gabriele, who went on to become a child psychologist. [2] [4] [57] Frankl's grandson, Alexander Vesely, is a licensed psychotherapist, producer and documentary film director, who co-founded the Viktor Frankl Institute of America. [58] Alexander Vesely produced, filmed, and edited the documentary "Viktor ...
Frankl, Viktor On the Theory and Therapy of Mental Disorders. An Introduction to Logotherapy and Existential Analysis, Brunner-Routledge, London-New York, 2004. ISBN 0-415-95029-5; Frankl, Viktor Viktor Frankl Recollections. An Autobiography, Basic Books, Cambridge, MA 2000. ISBN 978-0-7382-0355-3. Frankl, Viktor Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning.
Frankl also noted the barriers to humanity's quest for meaning in life. He warns against "...affluence, hedonism, [and] materialism..." in the search for meaning. [6] The following list of tenets represents Frankl's basic principles of Logotherapy: Life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable ones.
Man's Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose to each person's life through one of three ways: the completion of tasks, caring for another person, or finding meaning by facing suffering with dignity.
The Doctor and the Soul is a book by Viktor E. Frankl, the Viennese psychiatrist and founder of logotherapy. [1] [2] [3] [4]The book explores topics on the meaning of life in general as well as the meaning of specific areas of one's life, such as work and personal relationships.
Frankl's logotherapy addressed the filling of an "existential vacuum" associated with such feelings, and may be particularly useful for depressed adolescents. [23] [24] American existential psychologist Rollo May hypothesized that "depression is the inability to construct a future". [25]
Austrian existential psychiatrist Viktor Frankl connected depression to feelings of futility and meaninglessness. [87] Frankl's logotherapy addressed the filling of an "existential vacuum" associated with such feelings, and may be particularly useful for depressed adolescents. [88] [89]
Dr. Viktor Frankl, the founder of Logotherapy, coined the term in 1939 and advocated for its use by patients with severe anxiety disorders. [3] [4] Though therapists had been utilizing paradoxical treatments for a long time before the term was coined. [5] [2]: 133 Later on paradoxical intention was incorporated into Logotherapy. [6]: 114