Born in 1905 in the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire,
Viktor Frankl was a witness to the great political, philosophical, and
scientific upheavals of the twentieth century. In these stirring
recollections, Frankl describes how as a young doctor of neurology in
prewar Vienna his disagreements with Freud and Adler led to the
development of the third Viennese School of Psychotherapy, known as
logotherapy; recounts his harrowing trials in four concentration camps
during the War; and reflects on the celebrity brought by the publication
of Man's Search for Meaning in 1945.