Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning

An Emblematic 20th-Century Life
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-830-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 473 g

Reihe: Making Sense of History

First published in 1946, Viktor Frankl’s memoir Man’s Search for Meaning remains one of the most influential books of the last century, selling over ten million copies worldwide and having been embraced by successive generations of readers captivated by its author’s philosophical journey in the wake of the Holocaust. This long-overdue reappraisal examines Frankl’s life and intellectual evolution anew, from his early immersion in Freudian and Adlerian theory to his development of the “third Viennese school” amid the National Socialist domination of professional psychotherapy. It teases out the fascinating contradictions and ambiguities surrounding his years in Nazi Europe, including the experimental medical procedures he oversaw in occupied Austria and a stopover at the Auschwitz concentration camp far briefer than has commonly been assumed. Throughout, author Timothy Pytell gives a penetrating but fair-minded account of a man whose paradoxical embodiment of asceticism, celebrity, tradition, and self-reinvention drew together the complex strands of twentieth-century intellectual life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pytell, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Philosophische Psychologie, Logotherapie, Existenzanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Viktor Frankl and Man’s Search for Meaning

Chapter 1. The First Attempt to Find Meaning

Chapter 2. The Second Attempt to Find meaning

Chapter 3. Frankl’s Ordination: From Theory to Praxis

Chapter 4. The Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy

Chapter 5. The Doctor Perseveres

Chapter 6. Surviving and Working Through to Redemption

Chapter 7. The Flight into the Spiritual

Chapter 8. Forgetting, Reconfiguring and Vergangheitsbewältigung

Chapter 9. Frankl in America:   Transcending the Angel Beast

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pytell, Timothy
Timothy Pytell is Chair of the History department at California State University, San Bernardino. He published an abridged version of this biography, titled Viktor Frankl: Das Ende eines Mythos, in German in 2005.

Timothy Pytell is Chair of the History department at California State University, San Bernardino. He published an abridged version of this biography, titled Viktor Frankl: Das Ende eines Mythos, in German in 2005.