Viktor Frankl
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Viktor Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor who lived from 1905 to 1997 and wrote about finding meaning in life even during the most difficult circumstances. His work matters because it offers a psychological perspective on how people can endure suffering and maintain hope, drawing from his experiences in Nazi concentration camps.
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- 1905-03-26
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- 1997-09-02
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Viktor Emil Frankl ( Austrian German: [ˈfraŋkl̩]; 26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, 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.
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