The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy (Meridian S)

Viktor E. Frankl

ISBN 10: 0452010349 / ISBN 13: 9780452010345

Editore: Plume, 1988

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• Titolo: The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy (Meridian S)
• Editore: Plume
• Data di pubblicazione: 1988
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0452010349
• ISBN 13: 9780452010345
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

Explains the fundamentals of logotherapy, describes its use as a treatment for neuroses, and discusses the feelings of emptiness found in modern existence

Informazioni sull?autore

Viktor E. Frankl was the former Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School and Distinguished Professor of Logotherapy at the U.S. International University. He was the founder of what has come to be called the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy (after Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's individual psychology) -- the school of logotherapy.
Born in 1905, Dr. Frankl received the degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Vienna. During World War II he spent three years at Auschwitz, Dachau and other concentration camps.

Dr. Frankl first published in 1924 in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and has since published twenty-six books, which have been translated into nineteen languages, including Japanese and Chinese. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Duquesne and Southern Methodist Universities. Honorary Degrees have been conferred upon him by Loyola University in Chicago, Edgecliff College, Rockford College and Mount Mary College, as well as by universities in Brazil and Venezuela. He has been a guest lecturer at universities throughout the world and has made fifty-one lecture tours throughout the United States alone. He is President of the Austrian Medical Society of Psychotherapy.He died in Vienna at the age of 92.