Viktor Frankl recollections an autobiography
Recollections
Viktor E. Frankl ; translated by Joseph Fabry and Judith Fabry ; foreword by Joseph Fabry.
- Cambridge, Mass. Perseus Pub. c2000
- 143 p. ill. ; 21 cm.
"The original version of this volume was published in German under the title Was nicht in meinen Buchern steht, as was the second edition, both c1995, Psychologie Verlags Union, Weinheim, Germany"--T.p. verso.
Contents: My Mother and Father My Childhood The Manner of My Work Emotions and Desires On Wit and Humor Pleasures and Hobbies School Days Arguments with Psychoanalysis Psychiatry as My Chosen Profession The Influence of the Physician Philosophical Questions Faith Encounter with Individual Psychology The beginnings of Logotherapy Theory and Practice: Youth Counseling Centers The Years of Medical Apprenticship The "Anschluss" of Austria Resisting Euthanasia The Immigration Visa Tilly The Concentration Camp Deportation Auschwitz Collective Guilt Vienna: My Return and My Writing Encounters with Philosophers Lectures around the World On Aging Audience with the Pope Suffering and Meaning Last, But Far from Least
Born in 1905 in the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian empire, Viktor Frankl was a witness to the great political, philosophical and scientific upheavals of the twentieth century. In these recollections Frankl describes how as a young doctor of neurology in prewar Vienna his disagreements with Freud and Adler led to the development of the "third Viennese School of Psychotherapy," known as Logotherapy; recounts his harrowing trials in four concentration camps during the War; and reflects on the celebrity brought by the publication of Man's Search for Meaning in 1945