Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) was an Austrian neurologist, psychologist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life’s meaning as the central human motivational force. Logotherapy is part of existential and humanistic psychology theories.
Logotherapy was promoted as the third school of Viennese Psychotherapy, after those established by Sigmund Freud, and Alfred Adler.
Frankl published 39 books. The autobiographical Man’s Search for Meaning, a best-selling book, is based on his experiences in various Nazi concentration camps.
His books in English are:
The Doctor and the Soul, (originally titled Ärztliche Seelsorge), Random House, 1955.
Psychotherapy and Existentialism. Selected Papers on Logotherapy, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1967.
The Will to Meaning. Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy, New American Library, New York, 1988
Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning. (A revised and extended edition of The Unconscious God; with a foreword by Swanee Hunt). Perseus Book Publishing, New York, 1997
Viktor Frankl Recollections: An Autobiography; Basic Books, Cambridge, MA 2000.
On the Theory and Therapy of Mental Disorders. An Introduction to Logotherapy and Existential Analysis. Translated by James M. DuBois. Brunner-Routledge, London & New York, 2004.
Man’s Search for Meaning. An Introduction to Logotherapy, Beacon Press, Boston, 2006.
The Unheard Cry for Meaning. Psychotherapy and Humanism Simon & Schuster, New York, 2011
Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything. Beacon Press, Boston, 2020.
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