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Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life’s meaning as the central human motivational force. Logotherapy is part of existential and humanistic psychology theories.

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Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor wrote Man’s Search for Meaning in 1946. Frankl divides the book into two parts and explores his experiences in Nazi concentration camps. It also goes into his development of logotherapy, a form of psychotherapy focused on finding meaning in life. In the first part, Frankl vividly recounts his time in Auschwitz and other concentration camps during World War II. He reflects on the extreme suffering and dehumanization he and his fellow prisoners...

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