Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna, Austria on April 13, 1905. In 1933, he earned his medical degree from the University of Vienna and practiced psychiatry until he was conscripted into the SS during World War II. During the course of the war, Dr. Frankl was imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp, where he filed a detailed report on the psychology of survival
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He published a classic study of the effects of long-term imprisonment, Man's Search for Meaning . In 1947, Dr. Frankl immigrated to the United States with his wife and three daughters.
He became a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis and later at Emory University in Atlanta. In 1967, Dr.
Frankl founded the Center for Logotherapy—a school of thought that synthesizes the findings from all major schools of psychotherapy into a unified vision of human existence as a search for meaning and purpose—and served as its director until 1973. He died on January 11, 1997.