Viktor E. Frankl

About the author

Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor whose experiences in Nazi concentration camps became the crucible for one of the twentieth century's most influential psychological frameworks. He founded logotherapy — promoted as the third school of Viennese psychotherapy, after Freud and Adler — which holds that the search for meaning is the central human motivational force, situating it within existential and humanistic psychology. His autobiographical bestseller Man's Search for Meaning distilled that vision for a global readership.

Frankl authored 39 books in total.