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Viktor Frankl’s

Logotherapy. Viktor Frankl’s. Critical Perspectives in Psychiatry and Mental Health: A self-paced eLearning Workshop. © 2007, Alex Drossos. Prepared for the OISE/UT course, TPS1820: The Healing Teacher .

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Viktor Frankl’s

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  1. Logotherapy Viktor Frankl’s Critical Perspectives in Psychiatry and Mental Health: A self-paced eLearning Workshop © 2007, Alex Drossos. Prepared for the OISE/UT course,TPS1820: The Healing Teacher

  2. Disclaimer: This eLearning Workshop website has been developed as part of a Master's course project on Health Professional Education. The designer is not a Psychiatrist nor a Mental Health professional. Therefore, the content of this site is for demonstration purposes only and should not be used in a clinical setting without professional input regarding its safety and appropriateness. The designer assumes no responsibility, legal or otherwise, for the content.

  3. Overview • About Viktor Frankl • Childhood and Youth • The Concentration Camps • Post-World War II • Man’s Search for Meaning • Logotherapy

  4. About Viktor Frankl • VIKTOR E. FRANKL, M.D., PH.D. Neurologist and Psychiatrist • Founder of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis • Widowed (from Tilly Grosser); second marriage with Eleonore Schwindt; daughter Gabriele; 2 grandchildren, Katharina and Alexander; great-granddaughter Anna Viktoria • Born: March 26, 1905, Vienna • Died: September 2, 1997, Vienna

  5. Childhood and Youth • For his high school final exam he wrote a paper on the psychology of philosophical thinking • His medical training concentrated on depression and suicide • From 1933 to 1937 he headed the "suicide pavilion" of the General Hospital in Vienna • Starting in 1938, he was prohibited from treating Aryan patients due to his Jewish ethnicity

  6. The Concentration Camps • In fall of 1942 he and his wife and parents were deported to the Theresienstadt camp; his father died there a year later • In 1944 he moved to Auschwitz where his mother died; then to Türkheim later the same year; his wife also died that year • While at the camps he worked as a general practitioner and then later to counsel new arrivals and those with suicidal dendencies • Frankl was liberated on April 27, 1945

  7. Post-World War II • Moved back to Vienna after liberation • Headed the Vienna Poliklinik of Neurologics from 1946-1971 • Prof at U of Vienna in Psych and Neuro; visiting prof at Harvard • Published more than 32 books • Received 29 honorary doctorate degrees

  8. Man’s Search for Meaning • An account of his life in the concentration camps • Dictated it in only 9 days • Translated into more than 20 languages • Sold over 12 million copies worldwide

  9. Logotherapy • Known as the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy (after Freud’s and Adler’s) • Logos, λόγος, is Greek for word, reason, principle; therapy, Θεραπεύω, means “I heal” • Based on three philosophical and psychological concepts: • Freedom of Will • Will to Meaning, and • Meaning in Life

  10. Frankl’s Description of Logotherapy From the Viktor Frankl Institute website: http://logotherapy.univie.ac.at

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