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Viktor Frankl`s Logotherapy

Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna on March 26 , 1905 . Gabriel Frankl , his father , originally was from Moravia . After many years of hard work and strong effort he built up his career and advanced from government stenographer to the director of the Ministry of Social Service . He was a man of a strong will and with a confident character . His mother was a complete opposite - devout and tender woman from Prague her name was Elsa Frankl

Victor Frankl was middle of the three children . His curiosity to everything

and a fast learning mind began to give notice at the very young age , and when he was four ears old , he already knew that he wanted to become a physician . He led a very active social life during high school years , and participated in different organizations as the Young Socialist Workers organization . His interest about people 's behavior and their interactions motivated him to start studying psychology . His senior essay upon finishing high school was a remarkable psychoanalytic work on the philosopher Schopenhauer , which was later published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis . Following that event Frankl initiated a communication with Sigmund Freud . As a result , in 1925 , a year after finishing high school , he had a personal encounter with Freud

Frankl attended medical university , where he acquired a lot of useful information and some basic knowledge , which helped him to conduct more profound studies and research of his interest . He examined closely Alfred Adler 's theory , and in 1925 he published another scholarly article Psychotherapy and Weltanschauung ' in Adler 's International Journal of Individual Psychology . The following year was marked by the first appearance of the term logotherapy during one his public lectures and after that he initiated a profound development and improvement of his particular kind of Viennese psychology

In 1928-29 , Frankl organized free counseling centers for teenagers in seven Austrian cities , including Vienna . After that he started working at the Psychiatric University Clinic . Next year he received a doctorate degree in medicine and was promoted to assistant . Neurology became his primary field of practice for the next several years

Later in 1933 , he received a responsibility over treatment of suicidal women at the Psychiatric Hospital , where he had to take care of several thousands of patients each year . In 1937 , he began his own practice in the fields of neurology and psychiatry . In 1939 Austria was invaded by Hitler 's troops . The next year Frankl acquired visa to the United States . However , he was concerned about his old parents and stayed in Austria letting visa expire

In 1940 , Frankl became head of the neurological department at Rothschild Hospital , which was the only hospital for Jews in Vienna during Hitler 's invasion . In to prevent the release of the new policies requiring euthanasia of the mentally unstable patients he was forced to make false diagnoses of a great number of patients . Somewhere around that time he started the work on his great manuscript The Doctor...