Viktor Emil Frankl:
(Vienna, 26 March 1905 – Vienna, 2 September 1997).
Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, but became best known as a Holocaust survivor.
Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, a form of existential analysis, also called the Third Viennese School of psychotherapy. His book The Meaning of Existence (published in 1978 as a translation of Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager published as early as 1946) outlines his experiences as a prisoner in a concentration camp and describes his psychotherapeutic method for finding meaning of life in all life circumstances and thus a reason to go on living.
Between stimulus and response ther is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
