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Viktor Frankl and the Shoah

Advancing the Debate

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Authors:
  1. Alexander Batthyány

    1. Research Institute for Theoretical Psychology and Personalist Studies, Pázmány Péter University, Budapest and Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, Moscow, Russia

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  • Provides 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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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 “fellowtraveler” 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.

 

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The Debate

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Alexander Batthyány
      Pages 3-12

    3. How Not to Reconstruct History

      • Alexander Batthyány
      Pages 13-22

  4. 1940–1945

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. 1940–1942: At the Rothschild Hospital

      • Alexander Batthyány
      Pages 55-74

    3. 1942–1945: Theresienstadt – Auschwitz – Kaufering – Türkheim

      • Alexander Batthyány
      Pages 75-79

  5. Aftermath

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. 1946: Man’s Search for Meaning

      • Alexander Batthyány
      Pages 83-94

    3. 1946–1997: Review—Frankl on the Holocaust

      • Alexander Batthyány
      Pages 95-113

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 115-127
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Research Institute for Theoretical Psychology and Personalist Studies, Pázmány Péter University, Budapest and Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander Batthyány

About the author

Prof. Dr. Alexander Batthyány is Director the Research Institute for Theoretical Psychology and Personalist Studies at Pázmány Péter University, Budapest; he holds the Viktor Frankl Chair for Philosophy and Psychology at the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein, and is faculty Professor for Existential Psychotherapy at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis. He is Director of the Viktor Frankl Institute in Vienna and first editor of the 14-volume edition of the Collected Works of Viktor Frankl. His publications have been translated into over ten languages.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Viktor Frankl and the Shoah

  • Book Subtitle: Advancing the Debate

  • Authors: Alexander Batthyány

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83063-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83062-5Published: 16 October 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83063-2Published: 15 October 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2192-8363

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-8371

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 127

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Psychology, general

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