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We have prepared a standard literature appendix and biographical matter to be used in books by Viktor Frankl. Publishers are requested to use this material when launching new editions:
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In the English-speaking world Viktor Frankl is most widely known as the author of "Man's Search for Meaning". Less is known about his thirty other works of which only seven have so far been published in English.
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We suggest to publishers that the following books by Viktor Frankl should be translated into English and published in the near future.

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1  Frankl, Viktor E., Der leidende Mensch. Anthropologische Grundlagen der Psychotherapie
Hans Huber, Bern/Goettingen/Toronto/Seattle 1975-2005
ISBN: 3-456-82808-X
Pages: 252
Translated title: Suffering Humanity. Anthropological Foundations of Psychotherapy.

Publishing History: First edition 1975; extended edition 1984; most recent (3rd) edition 2005

Content: This is a combined and augmented edition of the earlier books "Der unbedingte Mensch / Metaklinische Vorlesungen" (1949) and "Homo patiens / Versuch einer Pathodicee" (1950). [A translation of these titles would be: "Unconditional Man / Metaclinical Lectures" and "Homo patiens / Attempt at a pathodicee".] The additional chapters are reprints of articles and transcriptions of lectures.

As the subtitle specifies, this book lays down, exhaustingly and in great detail, the view of man that is fundamental to logotherapy. Chapter headings range from "The body-soul problem" to "The problem of spirituality", "Cerebral pathology and phylogenesis of the spirit, "The problem of mortality" to "Pathology of zeitgeist and "Metaclinical analysis of the meaning of suffering".

From the endorsements: Joseph Wolpe (Behavioral Therapist): "Frankl's contribution to psychotherapy has been great. He is perhaps the only nonbehaviorist to have contributed a method to behavior therapy. The modesty with which he has put forward his important work has been remarkable."


2  Frankl, Viktor E., Der Wille zum Sinn. Ausgewählte Vorträge über Logotherapie
Hans Huber, Bern-Stuttgart-Wien, 1972-2005; ISBN 3-492-11238-2.; and
Piper, München 1994; ISBN 3-492-11238-2
Pages: 332

Translated title: The Will to Meaning. Selected Lectures on Logotherapy. (NOTE: this is not identical to the existing English book with the same title!)

Publishing History: First edition 1972, later editions were extended by additional chapters. One such addition is a short writeup by Elisabeth Lukas on the 'Validation of Logotherapy", another a lecture of Viktor Frankl on "Alpinism and the pathology of zeitgeist".

Content: This is a collection of important lectures given over a span of 25 years (1946 to 1971). The topics (chapter headings) are: The will to meaning, Time and responsibility, Logos and existence, Pluralism of science and Unity of man, Determinism and Humanism, Logotherapy, The logotherapeutic treatment of a psychoanalytic colleague, Critique of pure encounter.


3  Frankl, Viktor E., Die Psychotherapie in der Praxis. Eine kasuistische Einführung für Ärzte
Franz Deuticke, Wien, and
Serie Piper 475, München, 1947-2002
ISBN-10: 3492204759; ISBN-13: 978-3492204750
Pages: 307

Translated title: Psychotherapy in practice. A casuistic introduction for physicians

Publishing History: First edition (Deuticke) 1947. A new edition was initiated by the publisher in 1961; it contained additional chapters based on later lectures and speeches. Further editions were launched in 1974, 1982 and 1986. A paperback edition was published by Piper.

Content: The book is based on a workshop the author was commissioned to give in 1947 by the City Hospital of Vienna (the "Policlinic"). The audience comprised hospital doctors from various Vienna hospitals. Accordingly, the text is drawing mostly from case studies collected by the author in his many years of neurological/psychiatric/psychotherapeutic work. In order to guide the reader through the multitude of cases, a theoretical section precedes the main body of the book. Chapter headings refer to the logotherapeutic methods of Paradoxical Intention and Dereflexion, the fundamental concepts of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis, the important differentiation between organic and functional disturbances, and to a large number of specific neurotic disorders.


4  Frankl, Viktor E., Logotherapie und Existenzanalyse. Texte aus fünf Jahrzehnten
Piper, München 1985-98
Erweiterte Neuausgabe mit dem Untertitel "Texte aus sechs Jahrzehnten": Quintessenz, München, 1995
3., neu ausgestattete Auflage 1998, Psychologie Verlags Union (Beltz), Weinheim. Auch als BELTZ Taschenbuch erhältlich (2005).
ISBN: 3-621-27410-3
Pages: 302

Translated title: Logotherapy and Existential Analysis. Texts from six decades.

Publishing History: First edition 1985 by Piper, Munich; Second, enlarged edition 1994 by Quintessenz, Munich; Third, newly formatted edition 1998 by Psychologie Verlags Union. Also available as BELTZ pocketbook (2005).

Content: This is a collection of key papers by Viktor Frankl. It ranges back to the first articles, published in 1938, in which the terms 1ogotherapy" and "existential analysis" were used. The titles of the assembled papers are: On the spiritual aspects of psychotherapy (1938) / Reflexions on the therapy of the soul (1938) / Philosophy and Psychotherapy (1939) / On the pharmaceutical support for the psychotherapy of neuroses (1939) / Outline of Existential Analysis and Logotherapy (1959) / Psychology and psychiatry of the concentration camp (196 1) / Rudolf Allers as Philosopher and Psychiatrist (1964) / Psychologisation - or Humanisation of Medicine? (1981) / The encounter of Individual Psychology with Logotherapy (1984) / Hunger for bread - and hunger for meaning (1985) / Man's search for ultimate meaning (1985) / Remarks on the pathology of Zeitgeist (1993).


5  Frankl, Viktor E., Die Sinnfrage in der Psychotherapie. Vorwort von Franz Kreuzer
Serie Piper 214, Muenchen 1981-88. Extended edition 1992-97
ISBN 3-492-00514-4
Pages: 192

Translated title: The question of meaning in psychotherapy.

Publishing History: First edition 1981; Fourth (extended) edition 1992; most recent edition 1997.

Content: The book combines a series of lectures given in the course of the "Salzburg University Weeks 1977", a classic sequence of talks given in 1946 at Continuing Education Centers, an autobiographical sketch (the basis of the later "Recollections") and the lecture "Science and the need for meaning" (1988).


6  Frankl, Viktor E., Der Mensch vor der Frage nach dem Sinn. Eine Auswahl aus dem Gesamtwerk. Vorwort von Konrad Lorenz
Serie Piper 289, Muenchen 1979-2006
ISBN: 3-492-20289-6
Pages: 289

Translated title: Man and the question of meaning. Selected papers. Preface by Konrad Lorenz.

Publishing History: First edition 1985; 19th edition 2006.

Content: The book has two parts, titled "A longitudinal section of the complete work: lectures from the years 1946-1976", and "A latitudinal section of the complete work: A mosaic of text fragments". It represents a Frankl reader, prepared by the author himself, highlighting the various topics Frankl deemed of particular importance.
 

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