Victor Frankl

Abstract

In this research we try to discover the insight of “Viktor Frankl” in a holistic perspective. The key heart of the study is on “Victor Frankl” and its relation with his life and reasearch. The research also examines various characteristics of “Victor Frankl” and tries to measure its effect. Lastly the research illustrates a variety of factors of his life and his major works and tries to describe the overall effect of it.

Table of Contents

Introduction1

Discussion and Analysis2

Early life2

War and Deportation3

The return to Vienna and the first publications5

The Copernican revolution and the last years of activity5

Frank's Theory6

Logo therapy9

Special clinical details11

Treatment Elements13

Conclusion14

Victor Frankl

Introduction

Viktor Emil Frankl was a professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Vienna, but was also a professor at Harvard University and at universities in Dallas and Pittsburgh held. The U.S. International University (later Alliant University) in California, built especially for him a chair for logo therapy - this is created by Frankl, Psychotherapy direction, also called the "Third Viennese School" (based on the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud and the Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler). From universities around the world to him 29 honorary doctorates were awarded. The American Psychiatric Society bestowed Frankl became the first non-American psychiatrist, the Oskar Pfister Award - named after a disciple of Sigmund Freud - and the Austrian Academy of Sciences elected him an honorary member (Redsand, 2006).

His 39 books have so far (2011) published in 40 languages. Of one among these books, "Man's Search for Meaning," to 1997 was published well over nine million copies. According to Library of Congress (Washington) "one of the most influential books in the America". And readers of the Japanese newspaper "Yomiuri Shimbun" voted "Man's Search for Meaning" as "one of the books to be passed to the twenty-first century" (Yomiuri Shim bun, Tokyo, 11.30.2000). The book is available in German under the title "... Man's Search for Life (A psychologist experienced the concentration camps)."

It should also be mentioned by his German-published books, "Man's Search for Meaning (A selection from the complete work)." The last two books, whose publication he lived to be, "What is not in my books" (English "Viktor Frankl - Recollections") and "Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning."

Frankl was invited to lecture in 209 universities in all five continents. 1940 to 1942 Frankl was head of the Neurological Department of the Rothschild Hospital from 1946 to 1970 and Chairman of the Vienna Neurological Policlinic. In the year1995 Frankl was appointed an honorary citizen of Vienna. Frankl held the Solo Flight Certificate and Badge of the mountain guides of the Alpine Club Danube country. Three difficult climbing (Rax and Peilstein) were named after him (Redsand, 2006).

Discussion and Analysis

Early life

Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna into a family of Jewish origin. From a young age, being a college student began his interest in psychology. He studied medicine at Vienna University and majored in Medicine and Psychiatry. He worked at the Vienna General Hospital from 1937 to 1940 and practiced psychiatry ...