Viktor Frankl

"Poignant, humorous, angry, profound. We have seen two masterpieces created by Frankl: his theory and his life. Now, we glimpse some of the materials with which he worked". -- Swanee Hunt, United States Ambassador to Austria

Born in 1905 at the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, Viktor Frankl became a witness to the remarkable political, philosophical, and scientific upheavals of the twentieth century. In his stirring recollections and reflections, Dr. Frankl for the first time describes his childhood and youth, his experiences as a young doctor of neurology in prewar Vienna, and his early debates with Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler. He considers the impact of these disputes on the development of Logotherapy, the "third Viennese School of Psychotherapy".

Viktor Frankl -- Recollections is augmented by numerous heretofore unpublished photographs from Frankl's private archives. In the postwar years, Frankl's philosophical and psychological ideas caught the attention of a world-wide public. On numerous worldwide lecture tours, he met some of the great figures of our times -- Pope Paul VI, First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, and philosopher Martin Heidegger -- and shares insightful anecdotes and reflections on these encounters.

Dr. Frankl's words of undeniable power and wisdom create a classic memoir on par with his earlier Man's Search for Meaning, an international best-seller since its publication over 30 years ago. Indispensable for his millions of

The institutions and the insights that make various therapies work are the crucial ingredients of what Irvin Yalom calls "existential psychotherapy". Here he distills the essence of a wide range of therapies and brings them into a masterful, creative synthesis, opening up a profound new way of understanding each person's confrontation with four ultimate concerns: isolation, meaninglessness, death and freedom. "An exceptionally enriching reading experience".--Jerome D. Frank. Notes and Index.

A few years after Austria's disastrous defeat in the First World War, Vienna, a city hardly known for intellectual fervor or serious discourse, suddenly emerged as a mecca for psychology. This is the first book to present that history within the context of the political and social events of the time. Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Otto Rank, Karl Buhler, Erik Erikson, and Helene Deutsch were among the hundreds of famous psychologists who lived and established training centers in Vienna. Momentous historical events forced the emigration of the majority of Vienna's leading psychologists, who, largely Socialist and Jewish, emigrated when Austria was "annexed" by Germany, abruptly ending the Golden Age.

". . . [Guiterrez] examines the existence or reality of the self through a scrutiny of late 19th and 20th century works of fiction and non-fiction. . . . Methodology and style are accessible to undergraduates, and the study should prove useful background for modern literature courses."—CHOICE