Viktor Emil Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl M.D., Ph.D. was
an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust
survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of
Existential Analysis, the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy".
His best-selling book, Man's
Search for Meaning (published under a different title in 1959: From
Death-Camp to Existentialism, and originally published in 1946 as,
chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate and
describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding meaning in all
forms of existence, even the most sordid ones, and thus a reason to
continue living.
Frankl claims to have been a
psychiatrist in the Death Camps!