Care and Consolation: The Doctor Who Saved Lives

"Care and Consolation: The Doctor Who Saved Lives" features the dimensions of Viktor E. Frankl's Logotherapy and Existential Analysis--also known as the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy--after Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalysis, and Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology. Based on an extensive review of literature in the English, German, and Spanish languages, it details the historical encounters that have shaped the inception and development of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (LTEA) and the main tenets and principles that are at the base of its applications. Four chapters provide an overview of the evolution of LTEA: (1) On the Shoulders of Giants: The Encounter Between Viktor Frankl and Sigmund Freud; (2) Viktor Frankl: The Profile of a Doctor Who Saved Lives; (3) Logotherapy and Existential Analysis Today; and (4) Walking Tour of a Living Exhibition. Through a systematic examination of the "heartbeat of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis," readers are invited to "palpate the pulse" of this meaning-centered approach dedicated to the care and the consolation of those who are suffering and detect meaning possibilities in their lives.