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.
Creates logotherapy — Frankl's existential psychology (that the primary human drive is the will to meaning, not pleasure or power) has the unique authority of being developed in and tested by extreme suffering; Man's Search for Meaning is the book that makes logotherapy accessible.
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