3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Viktor Frankl's 1946 account of surviving Auschwitz — arguing that finding meaning in suffering is the primary human drive — founding logotherapy — one of the most widely read books of the 20th century (16M copies).
Austrian psychiatrist who survived Auschwitz and Dachau — losing his wife, parents, and brother — and whose Man's Search for Meaning (1946) argued that the search for meaning (not pleasure or power) is the primary human motivation, founding logotherapy.
Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor — founder of logotherapy — author of Man's Search for Meaning — who developed existential psychotherapy from his experience in Auschwitz and three other concentration camps.