Viktor Frankl · articles that mention them
Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, a survivor of the Nazi camps, founded logotherapy and wrote the international bestseller “Man's Search for Meaning.” His work links mental health to the search for meaning and remains relevant, despite challenges to his account.
The Marginalian brings together ideas from Hannah Arendt, Toni Morrison, Viktor Frankl, Leo Tolstoy, James Baldwin, Rachel Carson, Ursula Le Guin, Seneca, Bertrand Russell and Walt Whitman for a life lived with less fear and more presence.
In his book “Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything,” Viktor Frankl explains how the experience of beauty, nature and another person’s presence can make life worth living, even after unbearable suffering.
The lectures Viktor Frankl gave eleven months after Auschwitz, now available in English for the first time as “Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything,” show how life gains meaning not through pleasure or optimism, but through our responsibility to answer the questions life itself asks us.
In his book Man’s Search for Meaning, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl describes humor as one of the soul’s weapons for self-preservation, capable of lifting us above any circumstances — even inside a concentration camp.
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