Frankl: Meaning and Life

Author: Blair Gould
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Publish Date: 1999-07-01
Features: Dr. Frankl, who earned both a medical and a philosophical doctorate, became world-famous through his own actions as a survivor of four Nazi concentration camps, witnessing the meaning of life. He was an outstanding existentialist, psychiatrist, and philosopher, as well as the founder of the third Viennese school of psychotherapy (i.e., logotherapy). This book pioneers a new field in philosophical psychology, clearly and deeply exploring the main contradictions between philosophy and psychology in Frankl's thought, as well as their relationship to life today. In addition, the author Gould extensively discusses the theories of famous philosophers and psychologists from different eras, from Socrates to Sartre, from Freud and James to Maslow and Rollo May.