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Viktor Frankl and the Shoah, 1st ed. 2021
Advancing the Debate
SpringerBriefs in Psychology Series
Author: Batthyány Alexander
Language: EnglishSubject for Viktor Frankl and the Shoah:
Keywords
Viktor Frankl; Man’s Search for Meaning; Logotherapy; Existential Analysis; Psychotherapy and the Holocaust; Timothy Pytell; Auschwitz; Dachau; Theresienstadt; Psychiatry in the “3rd Reich; Zionism during the Nazi Regime; Austria during the Holocaust; Intellectual History of Psychotherapy and Psychiatry; Batthyany; Nazi Euthanasia; History of Psychiatry
127 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Paperback
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This books takes a new and critical look at the development of logotherapy and existential analysis, a prominent existential school of psychotherapy. It explores the intellectual and political biography of its founder, the Austrian psychiatrist and holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, best known for his bestselling ?Man?s Search for Meaning?. The book focuses on his life and works and political thinking from the late 1920?s to the years spent in Nazi-occupied Vienna, and finally the time he spent in the concentration camps Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Dachau. It presents new archival findings on Frankl?s involvement with the Austrian Zionist Movement, his attempts to sabotage the ?euthanasia? program of the National Socialists, and his scathing critiques of the NS-Psychotherapy school around Göring and his students, published during the years before Frankl?s deportation to Theresienstadt. This book addresses recent attempts by the author Timothy Pytell to portray Frankl as a ?fellow traveler? of the Nazi regime and corrects the fundamental errors and misrepresentations in Pytell?s work. It thus offers important perspectives on the intellectual history of ideas in psychology and existential psychotherapy, and also serves as key material on the development of psychotherapy before and during the Holocaust.
1. Introduction
2. Why Frankl?
3. Biographical Sketch of Frankl and Intellectual History of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis
4. 1925 – 1933: From ‘Red Vienna’ to the corporative state 5. 1936 – 1938: The Doctors’ Association for Psychotherapy and the Göring Institute (Berlin/Vienna)6. 1940 – 1942: Psychotherapy and Psychiatry at the Rothschild Hospital
7. 1942 – 1945: Theresienstadt – Auschwitz – Kaufering – Türkheim
8. 1946: On the Psychology of the Holocaust: Man's Search for Meaning
9. 1946 – 1997: Review – Frankl on the Holocaust
10. Concluding Remarks: Existential Psychotherapy after the HolocaustProvides a new perspective on the work of Viktor Frankl, the founder of logotherapy
Adds important corrections in traditional historical accounts
Explores the practice of psychotherapy before and after the Holocaust
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