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There are 15 critical essays on Viktor Frankl.
Critical Essays on Viktor Frankl

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Critical Essay by George Kovacs
5,516 words, approx. 18 pages
 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.
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Critical Essay by David Cohen
5,357 words, approx. 18 pages
 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.
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Critical Essay by Viktor E. Frankl
2,331 words, approx. 8 pages
 In the following essay, Frankl explains the "will to meaning," focusing on self-actualization, personal responsibility, and the role of values in life.
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Critical Review by Dan P. McAdams
1,918 words, approx. 6 pages
 McAdams is an American psychologist, educator, and author of The Stories We Live By: Personal Myths and the Making of the Self (1993). In the following review of Man's Search for Meaning, originally titled From Death-Camp to Existentialism, he focuses on the meaning Frankl's concentration camp experiences may have for a new generation of readers.
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Critical Essay by A. H. Maslow
1,515 words, approx. 5 pages
 Maslow is an American psychologist, educator, and author of Dominance, Self-Esteem, Self-Actualization: Germinal Papers of A. H. Maslow (1973). In the following excerpt, he concurs with Frankl's theories on the "will to meaning," self-actualization, and the role of values and pleasure in life.
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Critical Essay by Stanley J. Rowland, Jr.
1,337 words, approx. 5 pages
 Rowland is an American reporter, editor, and author of Hurt and Healing (1969). In the following essay, he examines Frankl's notion of the "will to meaning" as an essential supplementary element in modern depth psychology.
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Critical Review by Harry A. Savitz
1,148 words, approx. 4 pages
 In the following positive review of From Death-Camp to Existentialism, Savitz focuses on Frankl's concentration camp experiences and discusses the psychological factors that enabled some people to survive such horrors.
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Critical Essay by Time
994 words, approx. 3 pages
 In the following essay, the critic discusses logotherapy, emphasizing Frankl's existential approach to psychoanalysis.
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Critical Review by Anatole Broyard
914 words, approx. 3 pages
 Broyard was an American critic, essayist, memoirist, stort story writer, and educator whose works include Aroused by Books (1974) and Kafka Was the Rage (1993). In the following mixed review of The Unconscious God, he focuses on Frankl's call for the "rehumanization" of psychotherapy.
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Critical Review by Robert L. Moore
911 words, approx. 3 pages
 Moore is an American television producer, author of The Green Berets (1965), and several screenplays, including The French Connection (1971). In the following review of The Unconscious God, he praises the book's systematic organization but questions Frankl's presentation of the notions of religiosity and spirituality in an existential context.
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Critical Review by Robert Hassenger
811 words, approx. 3 pages
 In the following review of From Death-Camp to Existentialism, Hassenger focuses on Frankl's assertion that logotherapy is a necessary supplement to current psychoanalysis.
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Critical Review by Bruno Bettelheim
786 words, approx. 3 pages
 Bettelheim was an Austrian-born American psychologist, psychoanalyst, and educator whose works include A Good Enough Parent: A Book on Child Rearing (1987). In the following review of From Death-Camp to Existentialism, he examines the relationship between Frankl's concentration camp experiences and the development of logotherapy.
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Critical Review by The Times Literary Supplement
641 words, approx. 2 pages
 In the following unfavorable review of The Doctor and the Soul, the critic faults Frankl's notion of existentialism and charges that he neglects the contributions of Sigmund Freud and other psychoanalysts in the development of his logotherapeutic approach.
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Critical Review by E. K. Ledermann
297 words, approx. 1 pages
 Ledermann, a German-born medical doctor who specializes in homeopathic medicine, is the author of Existential Neurosis (1972). In the following excerpt from a favorable review of Das Menschenbild der Seelenheilkunde, he examines Frankl's assertion that modern psychologism must recognize a spiritual dimension in human life.

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