Viktor Frankl was a Jewish-Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who lived from 1905-1997. He studied at the University of Vienna, obtaining his medical degree, and later opting to focus on psychiatry and neurology. While Frankl's individual philosophy on psychotherapy was still yet to develop, he was greatly influenced by the theories of Freud and Adler. During the Second World War, Frankl was imprisoned in several Nazi concentration camps, beginning in 1942, until finally being liberated in 1945. While Frankl was a prisoner, he began formulating ideas for his pinnacle book, "Man's Search for Meaning," which describes his development of and the basis for logotherapy. Frankl's experience as a concentration camp inmate heavily influenced logotherapy. He describes wondering how the average concentration camp inmate survived through such an experience, and used these thoughts and ideas in his work on logotherapy.
What is Logotherapy?
Logotherapy is thought to be the "Third Viennese School" of psychotherapy, coming after Freud and Adler's psychoanalytic theories. It focuses largely on the individual's quest for personal meaning in life, and how that meaning can translate into motivation and help people overcome a variety of psychiatric disorders, including depression. Frankl believed that the individual's search for meaning was the single most important aspect of life. Without meaning, life is essentially pointless, bleak and dull. Finding one's meaning is based on the three basic tenets of logotherapy, namely that:
1. All life has meaning, regardless of how horrible or difficult your own life may seem right now.
2. The main human drive in life is to find meaning.
3. You have the freedom and option to choose to find meaning and to choose how you want to feel about and look at a situation.
While it may appear to have a spiritual basis, Frankl's philosophy does not advocate one religious belief over another. Rather he feels that your own spirit is the driving force, not a search for God or an external force. Logotherapy acknowledges the uniqueness of each individual.
Reference:
"Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy: Interpersonal"; Robert F. Massey and Sharon Massey; 2002
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