Viktor Frankl and the Shoah: Advancing the Debate

Author:   Alexander Batthyány
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
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9783030830625


Pages:   127
Publication Date:   16 October 2021
Format:   Paperback
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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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Author:   Alexander Batthyány
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.226kg
ISBN:  

9783030830625


ISBN 10:   3030830624
Pages:   127
Publication Date:   16 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Part1. The Debate.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. How not to reconstruct history.- Part2. 1925-1938 .- Chapter 3. 1925 – 1933: From Red Vienna to the Corporative State.- Chapter 4. 1936-1938: The Medical Society for Psychotherapy and the Göring Institute (Berlin/Vienna) .- Part3. 1940 - 1945.- Chapter 5. 1940 – 1942: At the Rothschild Hospital .- Chapter 6. 1942 – 1945: Theresienstadt – Auschwitz – Kaufering – Türkheim .- Part4. Aftermath.- Chapter 7. 1946: Man’s Search for Meaning .- Chapter 8. 1946-1997: Review – Frankl on the Holocaust.

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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.

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