The Austrian psychiatrist and psychotherapist Viktor Frankl is best known for tracing suffering to a failure to find meaning and a sense of responsibility in life. He once said that the meaning of his life was to help others find the meaning in theirs....

Viennese psyrchiatrist, an early admirer of Freud, was a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps. Frankl developed many of his psychological theories during his time in the camps. He wrote 31 books, including 'Man's Search for Meaning.' WHEN Viktor Frankl was 16 he wrote...

Ruth Yorkin Drazen was 69 when her husband Jerome died of prostate cancer. She thought she'd be terrified when he died, only to experience an entirely different emotion."It was his having a way out to peace," says Drazen, now 88. "And if you love someone,...

In the following interview, Frankl discusses his concentration camp experiences and his views on existentialism and modern psychotherapy.

In the following essay, Kovacs examines Frankl's notion that death is a natural and integral part of living and that it contributes an understanding of the existential meaning of life.

Cohen is an American journalist, freelance writer, filmmaker, and founder of Psychology News. In the following essay, he discusses Frankl's attempt to connect his understanding of the spiritual dimension of humanity with psychotherapy and, in particular, the logotherapeutic approach.