Description: Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning by Timothy Pytell …"[T]his is a scholarly, commendable biography and intellectual history. Lay readers will be challenged; psychologists and historians will be grateful."—Library Journal, starred reviewFirst published in 1946, Viktor Frankls memoir Mans Search for Meaning remains one of the most influential books of the last century, selling over ten million copies worldwide and having been embraced by successive generations of readers captivated by its authors philosophical journey in the wake of the Holocaust.This long-overdue reappraisal examines Frankls life and intellectual evolution anew, from his early immersion in Freudian and Adlerian theory to his development of the "third Viennese school" amid the National Socialist domination of professional psychotherapy. It teases out the fascinating contradictions and ambiguities surrounding his years in Nazi Europe, including the experimental medical procedures he oversaw in occupied Austria and a stopover at the Auschwitz concentration camp far briefer than has commonly been assumed.Throughout, author Timothy Pytell gives a penetrating but fair-minded account of a man whose paradoxical embodiment of asceticism, celebrity, tradition, and self-reinvention drew together the complex strands of twentieth-century intellectual life.From the introduction:At the same time, Frankls testimony, second only to the Diary of Anne Frankin popularity, has raised the ire of experts on the Holocaust. For example, in the 1990s the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington purportedly refused to sell Mans Search for Meaningin the gift shop…. During the late 1960s and early 1970s Frankl became very popular in America. Frankls survival of the Holocaust, his reassurance that life is meaningful, and his personal conviction that God exists served to make him a forerunner of the self-help genre. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Timothy Pytell is Chair of the History department at California State University, San Bernardino. He published an abridged version of this biography, titled Viktor Frankl: Das Ende eines Mythos, in German in 2005. Table of Contents Introduction: Viktor Frankl and Mans Search for MeaningChapter 1. The First Attempt to Find MeaningChapter 2. The Second Attempt to Find meaningChapter 3. Frankls Ordination: From Theory to PraxisChapter 4. The Third Viennese School of PsychotherapyChapter 5. The Doctor PerseveresChapter 6. Surviving and Working Through to RedemptionChapter 7. The Flight into the SpiritualChapter 8. Forgetting, Reconfiguring and VergangheitsbewältigungChapter 9. Frankl in America: Transcending the Angel BeastBibliographyIndex Review "As an introduction to Frankls ideas and their relationship to broader mid-twentieth-century intellectual currents, Pytells biography is an important contribution to the literature on Frankl and the contorted circumstances of his life." • American Historical Review"Pytells perceptive study should be read by any student of the Holocaust and any student of the postwar history of humanistic psychology. Pytell judges Frankl, but does so with generosity and compassion. Frankl, too, was a victim of the Holocaust." • Holocaust and Genocide Studies"This work is a great case study in the intellectual history of the twentieth century and the impact of the Holocaust therein." • Journal of Austrian Studies"The book has extensive notes and a major bibliography that includes interviews, periodicals, and unpublished documents. Frankls logotherapy—from logos, meaning—emphasizes creativity, love, and our attitude toward unalterable fate. Some critics view logotherapy as superficial, offering consolation more than challenge. Intellectually demanding, this is a scholarly, commendable biography and intellectual history. Lay readers will be challenged; psychologists and historians will be grateful." • Library Journal (starred review)"Pytells book fills an important gap in the literature on one of the most famous and, until now, least controversial psychotherapists of the twentieth century. Unlike earlier works on Frankl, this book avoids hagiography and places Frankl in the full political, social, historical, and intellectual contexts of his times. It is the first work to synthesize Frankls life and work in his time and place." • Geoffrey Cocks, Albion College Review Quote "As an introduction to Frankls ideas and their relationship to broader mid-twentieth-century intellectual currents, Pytells biography is an important contribution to the literature on Frankl and the contorted circumstances of his life." * American Historical Review "Pytells perceptive study should be read by any student of the Holocaust and any student of the postwar history of humanistic psychology. Pytell judges Frankl, but does so with generosity and compassion. Frankl, too, was a victim of the Holocaust." * Holocaust and Genocide Studies "This work is a great case study in the intellectual history of the twentieth century and the impact of the Holocaust therein." * Journal of Austrian Studies "The book has extensive notes and a major bibliography that includes interviews, periodicals, and unpublished documents. Frankls logotherapy--from logos, meaning--emphasizes creativity, love, and our attitude toward unalterable fate. Some critics view logotherapy as superficial, offering consolation more than challenge. Intellectually demanding, this is a scholarly, commendable biography and intellectual history. Lay readers will be challenged; psychologists and historians will be grateful." * Library Journal (starred review) "Pytells book fills an important gap in the literature on one of the most famous and, until now, least controversial psychotherapists of the twentieth century. Unlike earlier works on Frankl, this book avoids hagiography and places Frankl in the full political, social, historical, and intellectual contexts of his times. It is the first work to synthesize Frankls life and work in his time and place." * Geoffrey Cocks, Albion College Details ISBN1789208076 Author Timothy Pytell Pages 216 Publisher Berghahn Books Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 1789208076 ISBN-13 9781789208078 Format Paperback Imprint Berghahn Books Subtitle An Emblematic 20th-Century Life Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 150.195092 Short Title Viktor Frankls Search for Meaning Series Number 23 Publication Date 2020-03-09 UK Release Date 2020-03-09 AU Release Date 2020-03-09 NZ Release Date 2020-03-09 Edited by Ruth Oldenziel Birth 1987 Affiliation Univ Of Hull, Uk Position Doctor Qualifications MD, DMD, MBA, FACS, FRACS Series Making Sense of History Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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ISBN-13: 9781789208078
Book Title: Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning: an Emblematic 20th-Century Life
Author: Timothy Pytell
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Psychology
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Genre: Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
