Viktor Frankl and Man’s Search For Meaning, Pt. 1

In this episode we introduce Frankl's classic title "Man’s Search
For Meaning", the historical background, and the existential
aspect in psychotherapy. While existential philosophy has been
known since the mid 19th century through thinkers like
Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky, the existential aspect
has been introduced into psychotherapy only later - most
prominently through Viktor Frankl. He was an Austrian Jewish
psychoanalyst who had to endure for years the imprisonment in
concentration camps, which strenghthened his focus on the meaning
of life and its application in psychotherapy, which later came to
be known as Logotherapy.





For an outstanding description of the living conditions in
Auschwitz see: Hermann Langbein "People in Auschwitz".





And if you wonder about how prisoners in concentration camps
dealt with their faith I can recommend the thesis of Flavia
Giuffra: “Was God Behind the Barbed Wire? An Inquiry into Jewish
Faith and Practice in Auschwitz”





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