Abstract
Viktor E Frankl is considered as one of the most important person of 20th century in the area of medicine, namely in the branch of neurosurgery and psychiatry. He was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School.
The first part of this article describes Viktor Frankl’s life story from his birth in 1905 to his death in 1997, with main emphasis to experiences which led to his discovery of logotherapy. The second part of the paper tells us about Frankl's work and his logotherapy.
The main therapeutical methods are paradoxical intention and dereflection. Frank's life and work were devoted to searching and finding meaning of life.
According to logotherapy, people can discover the meaning in life in three different ways – by creating a work or doing a deed, by experiencing something or encountering someone and by the attitude people take toward unavoidable suffering. Besides meaning in life, this article describes also meaning of human suffering, meaning of love, work and death.