Man's Search for Meaning

ViktorE.FranklisProfessorofNeurologyandPsychiatryattheUniversityofViennaMedicalSchoolandDistinguishedProfessorofLogotherapyattheU.S.InternationalUniversity.HeisthefounderofwhathascometobecalledtheThirdVienneseSchoolofPsychotherapy(afterFreud'spsychoanalysisandAdler'sindividualpsychology)--theschooloflogotherapy.Bornin1905,Dr.FranklreceivedthedegreesofDoctorofMedicineandDoctorofPhilosophyfromtheUniversityofVienna.DuringWorldWarIIhespentthreeyearsatAuschwitz,Dachauandotherconcentrationcamps.Dr.Franklfirstpublishedin1924intheInternationalJournalofPsychoanalysisandhassincepublishedtwenty-sixbooks,whichhavebeentranslatedintonineteenlanguages,includingJapaneseandChinese.HehasbeenavisitingprofessoratHarvard,DuquesneandSouthernMethodistUniversities.HonoraryDegreeshavebeenconferreduponhimbyLoyolaUniversityinChicago,EdgecliffCollege,RockfordCollegeandMountMaryCollege,aswellasbyuniversitiesinBrazilandVenezuela.Hehasbeenaguestlectureratuniversitiesthroughouttheworldandhasmadefifty-onelecturetoursthroughouttheUnitedStatesalone.HeisPresidentoftheAustrianMedicalSocietyofPsychotherapy.--Thistextreferstoanoutofprintorunavailableeditionofthistitle.