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Frankl’s The Doctor and the Soul traces the development from psychotherapy toward logotherapy and existential analysis. The structure moves from meaning-centered concepts—meaning of life, death, suffering, work, and love—to specific clinical topics such as anxiety neurosis, obsessional neurosis, melancholia, and schizophrenia. It also explains logotherapy as a therapeutic technique and discusses the transformation of confession into medical ministry, rooted in survival-oriented “will to meaning.”","Second Vintage Books Edition, October 1986  \nCopyright © 1980, 1986 by Viktor E. Frankl Copyright © 1955, 1965 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.  \nCopyright renewed 1983 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.  \nAll rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in German as Ärztliche Seelsorge in 1946. Copyright 1952 by Franz Deuticke, Vienna. This translation originally published, in diʃerent form, by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1955 and 1965.  \n“Psychotherapy on Its Way to Rehumanization” was originally published in The International Forum of Logotherapy (Fall 1980 edition).  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data  \nFrankl, Viktor Emil.  \nThe doctor and the soul.  \nTranslation of Ärztliche Seelsorge.  \nBibliography: p.  \n1. Logotherapy. 2. Psychoanalysis. 3. Existentialism. I. Title. [DNLM:  \n1. Psychotherapy, WM 420 F831a]  \nRC489.L6F675413 1986 616.89‘14 85-40681 eISBN: 978-0-307-77291-6  \nv3.1  \nTo the Memory of Tilly  \nContents  \nCover  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nDedication  \nPreface to the Third Edition  \nIntroduction  \nI From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy  \nII From Psychoanalysis to Existential Analysis  \nA General Existential Analysis  \n1 On the Meaning of Life  \n(a) On the Meaning of Death  \n(b) On the Psychology of the Concentration Camp  \n2 On the Meaning of Suʃering  \n3 On the Meaning of Work  \n4 On the Meaning of Love  \nB Special Existential Analysis  \n1 On the Psychology of Anxiety Neurosis  \n2 On the Psychology of Obsessional Neurosis  \n3 On the Psychology of Melancholia  \n4 On the Psychology of Schizophrenia  \nIII Logotherapy as a Psychotherapeutic Technique  \nIV From Secular Confession to Medical Ministry  \nV Psychotherapy on Its Way to Rehumanization  \nNotes  \nSelected Bibliography  \nAbout The Author  \nPreface to the Third Edition  \nThis new—revised and enlarged—edition of The Doctor and the Soul is the ɹfty-seventh that has been published in nine languages (in addition to the German original and the English edition, there are Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Finnish, Dutch, Danish, and Portuguese versions). Let me, therefore, say a few words regarding the story behind the book—a story that has often been obscured by the misconceptions of the mass media whose representatives never weary of proclaiming that Viktor Frankl came out of Auschwitz with a brand-new psychotherapeutic system he had developed in the concentration camp. The very opposite is true: I entered the camp with a full-length book manuscript (hidden under the lining of my overcoat) which was indeed an outline of the basic concepts of logotherapy. I had worked on it up to the last moment and hoped to save it during my period of imprisonment. I could not anticipate that it would be taken away from me immediately and, of course, destroyed. Under the circumstances, I felt like a father who was not spared watching his children murdered before his eyes. The book was, in fact, my spiritual child who I’d hoped would survive even if I did not do so myself.  \nTo be sure, the concentration camps I went through did in fact serve as a testing ground that conɹrmed one of the main tenets of logotherapy, the theory that the basic meaning orientation of an individual—or, as I am used to calling it, the “will to meaning”—has actual survival value. Under comparable circumstances, those inmates who were oriented toward the future, whether it was a task to complete in the future, or a beloved person to be reunited with, were most likely to survive the horrors of the camps (I say “camps”  \nbecause the same lessons can be learned from the psychiatric literature on American soldiers kept in Japanese, North-Korean, and North-Vietnamese Prisoner of War camps).  \nCertainly this is true in my own “case”—my strong desire torewrite my lost manuscript surely contributed to the chances of my survival. 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