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Frankl’s Views Viktor Frankl’s work is thought to perhaps be the most significant thinking since Freud and Adler. Logotherapy has been officially recognized as one of the scientifically based schools of psychotherapy by the American Psychological Association. Frankl has written 32 books and they have been translated in 27 different languages. The one that this paper will concentrate on is Man’s Search for Meaning. Frankl’s work and theories come from his experiences in the Nazi concentration camps watching which prisoners survived and which did not, provided there was an opportunity to survive. He adapted Friedrich Nietzsche’s quote, “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how." He found that the prisoners that had hope of being reunited with loved ones, or those who felt they had projects that needed completion, had a better chance of survival than those who had lost all hope. Logotherapy is the therapy which was invented by Viktor Frankl. From the Greek word logos, this can mean study, word, spirit, God, or meaning. Where as Freud felt the root of all human motivation was the will to pleasure, and Adler felt it was the will to power, logotherapy suggests it is the will to meaning. Since people are capable of deciding, they are also responsible for their decisions.
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