@article{ref1,
title="The missing pieces of the puzzle: A reflection on the odd career of Viktor Frankl",
journal="Journal of contemporary history",
year="2000",
author="Pytell, T.",
volume="35",
number="2",
pages="281-306+331",
abstract="Viktor Frankl gained international recognition based upon his heroic survival of Auschwitz and his subsequent claim to have founded the third Viennese school of psychotherapy - logotherapy. This article revises this traditional view of Frankl by examining how logotherapy was actually developed under the auspices of the nazi-sponsored Goering Institute in the 1930s. In addition, his survival of Auschwitz is problematized by the questionable medical experimentation he performed in 1940-42 on Jews who had committed suicide in order to avoid deportation, and his limited (three-day) experience in Auschwitz. This new contextualization explains the mass appeal of Viktor Frankl as both a peculiar case of the Austrian burial of the 'ambiguous past' and the longing amongst Americans for an uplifting version of the Holocaust. Copyright © 2000 SAGE Publications.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-0094",
doi="10.1177/002200940003500208",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002200940003500208"
}