Biography and victor frankl

1997

Frankl's last book is published: Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning. After half a year in Theresienstadt his father dies of exhaustion. Dr.med. Logotherapy refers to actual therapeutic practice and existential analysis to its philosophical underpinnings—together often referred to as the “Third Vienna School of Psychotherapy”.

Freedom of Will

Logotherapy considers humans as beings with free will, able to take their stance towards internal and external conditions.

1959

Man´s Search for Meaning is published in the U.S. under its first title From Death Camp to Existentialism.

Frankl is deeply involved in the Viennese adult education centers. The first edition is sold out within a few days. His reconstructed Aerztliche Seelsorge, with an added chapter on the "psychology of the concentration camp," is one of the very first books published in postwar Vienna.

He begins guest professorships at overseas universities.

In his paper Seelenaerztliche Selbstbestimmung he takes a stand against the misuse of the therapist's authority to impose their own worldview - in particular, the rampant German-nationalist ideology - on a patient. DDr. Viktor Emil Frankl
Neurologist and Psychiatrist

Born: March 26, 1905, Vienna
Died: September 2, 1997, Vienna
Academic titles and degrees: Univ.

Frankl is excluded from Adler's circle. He achieved The Mountain Guide Badge of the mountaineers club “Alpenverein Donauland” (Austria); three difficult climbing routes (on the Rax and Peilstein mountains) were named after him.

In 1995 Viktor Frankl became an Honored Citizen of the City of Vienna.

 

Using Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis and Alfred Adler’s individual psychology as points of departure in the early 1930s, psychiatrist and neurologist Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) developed his own approach, for which he coined the name “logotherapy and existential analysis”.

1946

Within nine days he dictates the book Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager, which will later be published in English as Man's Search For Meaning. "Was nicht in meinen Büchern steht" (English title: "Viktor Frankl: Recollections") and "Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning" were the last two books published during his lifetime.

Frankl presented papers and lectures at 209 universities on all five continents.

From 1940 to 1942 Frankl was head of the Neurological Department of Rothschild Hospital; from 1946 to 1970 he was director of the Vienna Neurological Policlinic.

Frankl held the pilots’ Solo Flight Certificate (USA).

Schwindt; one daughter, two grandchildren, three great-grandchildren


Viktor E. Frankl was professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Vienna and was lecturer in the United States (Harvard University as well as at universities in Dallas and Pittsburgh).

1937

Frankl opens a private practice as Doctor of Neurology and Psychiatry.

1946

Frankl becomes director of the Vienna Neurological Policlinic, a position he will hold for 25 years. His mother, Elsa Frankl, nee Lion, hails from Prague, his father Gabriel Frankl, Director in the Ministry of Social Service, comes from Southern Moravia.

1921

At the age of 15, Frankl offers his first public lecture, On the Meaning of Life.

He strives to explore the frontier between psychotherapy and philosophy, focusing on the fundamental question of meaning and values – a topic that will become the central subject of his life work.

1941-42

Frankl marries Tilly Grosser, a nurse he had met at the Rothschild Hospital.