Memories

The life of Viktor Frankl, the famous psychiatrist, creator of logotherapy, has become for many people around the world a lesson in wisdom and courage, an cause for inspiration. In 1945, he found himself among the few who managed to survive in Auschwitz. The terrible experience of the concentration camp enriched him professionally as a psychotherapist, and the mission of the scientist became helping people in search of the meaning of life. In this book, Frankl, with his inherent charm of modesty, tells about childhood and youth in Vienna, about working in a psychiatric clinic between the two world wars, about survival in a concentration camp and life after the war. He explains his discrepancies with Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler and clarifies their influence on logotherapy, gives many details about the formation of psychoanalysis and its various directions. The autobiography of Viktor Frankl is a unique evidence of an eyewitness to the main events and spiritual confusion of the twentieth century.

"So simple, directly and modestly written autobiography, I never had to read. This meeting with the literature of the genius is simultaneously the delight of reverence and shock. "