VIKTOR FRANKL

Founder of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis

 Frankl organizes youth
counselling centers where
First public lecture: On the adolescents may obtain advice
Born: March 26, 1905 in Vienna Meaning of Life and help free of cost

26 Mar. 1905 1921 1928–1929

1914–1918 1926 1930

World War I Frankl presents public lectures; for He organized special counseling
the first time uses the word program at the end of the school
LOGOTHERAPY term, whereupon, for the first time
in years no student suicide occurs
in Vienna.
 Viktor and his wife, Tilly, were
arrested [together with his
Invasion of Austria by the Hitler parents] and were deported to 1945: Camp was liberated by US
troops Theresienstadt Ghetto. troops

1938 1942 1945

1940–1942 1944 1997

He becomes director of the Viktor, his wife and his mother Last book published: Man’s
Neurological Department of were transferred to Auschwitz. Search for Ultimate Meaning
Rothschild Hospital. He sabotage He died on September 2
Nazi procedures by making false
diagnoses to prevent euthanasia
of mentally ill patients.
 Frankl authored forty (40) books
which to date have been
published in 49 languaes.

His last two books are “Man’s

NOTABLE Search for Ultimate Meaning” and
“Viktor Frankl – Recollections”,
WORKS both published in 1997.
Man’s Search for Meaning had
sold over nine million copies in the
USA alone.
LOGOTHERAPY
From the Greek word “logos”, which means meaning.
 LOGOTHERAPY THEORY

•Freedom of Will
•Will to Meaning
•The Meaning of Life
THERAPEUTIC
TECHNIQUES
Paradoxical Intention

Dereflexion

Socratic dialogue/
modification of attitudes
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