The Will to Meaning: Foundations And Applications of Logotherapy (Meridian S.) - Softcover

Frankl, Viktor E.

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9780452010345: The Will to Meaning: Foundations And Applications of Logotherapy (Meridian S.)

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ISBN 10: 0452010349 ISBN 13: 9780452010345

Publisher: Penguin, 1991

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The Will to Meaning Frankl discusses logotherapy--man's motivation to search for meaning in his life--in the context of other prominent psychotherapies and describes the techniques he uses with his patients to combat the "existential vacuum". 11 line drawings. Full description

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Perhaps the most significant thinking since Freud and Adler. The American Journal of Psychiatry
Frankl is one of the most famous and gifted of all psychiatrists The incredible attempts to dehumanize man at Auschwitz and Dachau led Frankl to commence the humanization of psychiatry through logotherapy. Frankl is a professional who possesses the rare ability to write in a layman s language. Dr. Gerald F. Kreyche, professor emeritus at DePaul University
I regard this book as one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years. Dr. Carl Rogers, author of Client-Centered Therapy
Dr. Frankl s contribution to psychotherapy has been great. He is perhaps the only non-behaviorist to have contributed a method to behavior therapy. The modesty with which he has put forward his important work has been remarkable. Dr. Joseph Wolpe, author of The Practice of Behavioral Therapy"

"Perhaps the most significant thinking since Freud and Adler."--The American Journal of Psychiatry

"Frankl is one of the most famous and gifted of all psychiatrists... The incredible attempts to dehumanize man at Auschwitz and Dachau led Frankl to commence the humanization of psychiatry through logotherapy. Frankl is a professional who possesses the rare ability to write in a layman's language."--Dr. Gerald F. Kreyche, professor emeritus at DePaul University

"I regard this book as one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years."--Dr. Carl Rogers, author of Client-Centered Therapy

"Dr. Frankl's contribution to psychotherapy has been great. He is perhaps the only non-behaviorist to have contributed a method to behavior therapy. The modesty with which he has put forward his important work has been remarkable."--Dr. Joseph Wolpe, author of The Practice of Behavioral Therapy

About the Author:

Viktor E. Frankl was the former Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School and Distinguished Professor of Logotherapy at the U.S. International University. He was the founder of what has come to be called the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy (after Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's individual psychology) -- the school of logotherapy.
Born in 1905, Dr. Frankl received the degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Vienna. During World War II he spent three years at Auschwitz, Dachau and other concentration camps.

Dr. Frankl first published in 1924 in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and has since published twenty-six books, which have been translated into nineteen languages, including Japanese and Chinese. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Duquesne and Southern Methodist Universities. Honorary Degrees have been conferred upon him by Loyola University in Chicago, Edgecliff College, Rockford College and Mount Mary College, as well as by universities in Brazil and Venezuela. He has been a guest lecturer at universities throughout the world and has made fifty-one lecture tours throughout the United States alone. He is President of the Austrian Medical Society of Psychotherapy.He died in Vienna at the age of 92.

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