Facts about Victor Frankl

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   During his imprisonment, Victor Frankl lost the manuscript of his first book, which he had smuggled into the camps and was forced to rewrite from memory after liberation.

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   Logotherapy, the psychological framework Victor Frankl created, is considered the 'Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy,' following Freud's and Adler's schools.

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   Before World War II, Victor Frankl founded the Youth Advisement Centers in Vienna, providing free mental health counseling to teenagers.

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   His 1946 book Man's Search for Meaning, describing his Holocaust experiences and logotherapy, became one of the most influential books in the United States.

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   Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl developed logotherapy, a meaning-centered psychotherapy, largely based on his experiences surviving Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

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