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...survivor of the terror and famine of Nazi concentration camps, Dr. Viktor E. Frankl, professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna, is the founder and currently leader of the school of Logotherapy, the newest approach to psychotherapy since the work of Freud, Adler and Jung...
Having corresponded with Freud at the age of 16 and having worked with Adler, Frankl felt it necessary to build upon these foundations and add a needed dimension--specifically human--to the bio-socio-psychological perspectives already established. The result was the concept of a "will to meaning" as opposed to the wills to pleasure and power of Freud and Adler. Frankl's claim was that man's ultimate goal is to find meaning in life. By use of Logotherapy, the psychotherapist helps those who are "existentially frustrated" find the meaning in their lives...
...Logotherapy is a supplement to existing psychotherapy and is not a panacea; it must co-exist with other psychotherapies," states Frankl. "It has its concrete indications and is not usable in each and every case...
Although Dr. Frankl's theory was already formulated before he was sent to Auschwitz in 1944, his experiences in the concentration camps provided empirical confirmation for it. He himself, stricken with typhus fever attacks, strove to keep awake and alive by scribbling notes on scraps of paper in an attempt to rewrite the confiscated manuscript of his book. The Doctor and the Soul. "Only after my theory had undergone the acid test of the concentration camp did I feel it legitimate to propound an approach which constituted such a blow into the prevalent nihilism and fatalism. Meaning orientation keeps...
...Frankl, who is also President of the Austrian Medical Society for Psychotherapy and head of the Neurological Department of Poliklinik City Hospital in Vienna, is a visiting professor of Psychology at the Summer School. Besides devoting most of his time to his course on the "abnormal Personality" and a seminar entitled "Existence and Values," Dr. Frankl is also giving guest lectures in the new England area...