Sublime

Victor Frankl, himself a survivor of Auschwitz (and a neurologist and psychologist): “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

Logotherapy, or, as it has been called by some authors, “The Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy,” focuses on the meaning of human existence as well as on man’s search for such a meaning.

VIKTOR E. FRANKL was PROFESSOR OF NEUROLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY at the University of Vienna and, for 25 years, head of the Vienna Neurological Policlinic. The Logotherapy/Existential Analysis founded by him is also known as the Third Viennese Direction of Psychotherapy. He held visiting professorships at Harvard University, Stanford, Dallas and Pittsbur

Logotherapy tries to make the patient fully aware of his own responsibleness; therefore, it must leave to him the option for what, to what, or to whom he understands himself to be responsible.

He sought to help his patients find a way to make their lives meaningful even in the face of depression or mental illness.

He sought to help his patients find a way to make their lives meaningful even in the face of depression or mental illness.

there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering.