When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor Emil Frankl Quotes
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
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| Birth: | 26th March, 1905 |
| Death: | 2nd September, 1997 |
| Nationality: | Austrian |
| Profession: | Neurologist, Psychiatrist |
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Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of existential analysis, the "Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy".
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