What Is Not in My Books: Memories

The life of Viktor Frankl, the famous psychiatrist and creator of logotherapy, has become for many people around the world a lesson in wisdom and courage, a source of inspiration. In 1945, he was among the few who managed to survive Auschwitz. The terrible experience of the concentration camp enriched him professionally as a psychotherapist, and the scholar's mission became to help people in their search for the meaning of life. In this book, Frankl, with his characteristic charm of modesty, recounts his childhood and youth in Vienna, his work in a psychiatric clinic between the two world wars, his survival in the concentration camp, and life after the war. He explains his disagreements with Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler and clarifies their influence on logotherapy, providing many details about the development of psychoanalysis and its various directions. Viktor Frankl's autobiography is a unique testimony of an eyewitness to the main events and spiritual turmoil of the 20th century. The previous edition in Russian was published under the title "Memories".