FRANKL, VIKTOR E.; LASCH, ILSE (TRANSLATOR); ALLPORT, GORDON W. (PREFACE)
From Death-Camp to Existentialism - a Psychiatrist's Path to a New Therapy
Boston: Beacon Press, 1959. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Here is the personal narrative of a psychiatrist's experiences in a concentration camp. It is also a valuable introduction to logotherapy by the doctor who founded this school. Frankl (1905-1997) spent three years as a Nazi prisoner in four concentration camps. His entire family, with the exception of one sister, perished in these camps. It was during those harrowing years that Dr. Frankl crystallized his version of modern existential analysis." - dust jacket. First printing. Translated from the 1946 German first edition. [viii]-xii, [2], 111 pp. Light wear to book which is clean, tight and unmarked but for initials atop front free endpaper. Moderate wear to complete dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Laska 1749.; 8vo. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

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