The Doctor and the Soul

“Perhaps the most significant thinking since Freud and Adler.” —American Journal of Psychiatry“His most important book… . It gives an existential and spiritual dimension to the work of psychotherapy.” —Positive Health   “[Frankl] subject[s] the great phenomenon of life to a new evaluation… . Well written and backed by powerful personal conviction.” —American Journal of Psychotherapy

VIKTOR E. FRANKL (1905-1997) was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna. During World War II, he spent three years in Auschwitz, Dachau, and other concentration camps. He was the founder of the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy–the school of logotherapy–and President of the Austrian Medical Society of Psychotherapy. His forty books, which include Man’s Search for Meaning, Psychotherapy and Existentialism, and The Will to Meaning, have been translated into fifty languages.