Viktor Frankl
1905 – 1997 · Austria · Philosophy, Psychology
Logotherapy: meaning as the primary human drive, tested in the camps.
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Inherited from2
- Marcus Aurelius
121 – 180 · Philosophy, Literature
Frankl's logotherapy restates the Stoic hinge: the last freedom is the stance taken toward what cannot be changed.
- Sigmund Freud
1856 – 1939 · Medicine, Philosophy
Frankl trained in the Vienna analytic milieu and replaced pleasure with meaning as the drive.
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- Jon Kabat-Zinn
1944 · Integrative Medicine, Psychology
Meaning-centred coping is an antecedent of clinical mindfulness for chronic illness.
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