 | La presencia ignorada de Dios: Psicoterapia y religión Viktor Frankl, conocido mundialmente por su obra El hombre en busca de sentido y como fundador de la Logoterapia, denominada también la Tercera Escuela Vienesa de Psicoterapia, nos muestra en este libro que el hombre no sólo se halla dominado por una impulsividad inconsciente, como pretende Freud, sino que también hay en él una espiritualidad inconsciente. A partir del modelo de la conciencia y de la interpretación de los sueños, enriquecido con ejemplos de su práctica clínica, Frankl logra persuadir al lector, por medios empíricos, de que subyace en el hombre una religiosidad que implica "la presencia ignorada de Dios". Viktor E. Frankl was a man who persevered in living, writing, and helping people, despite suffering for years at the hands of the Nazis. He was born in Vienna on March 26, 1905, and received his doctorate of medicine in 1930. As a psychiatrist, he supervised a ward of suicidal female patients, and later became chief of the neurological department at Rothschild Hospital in Vienna. Frankl's successful career was halted temporarily in 1942 when he was deported to a Nazi concentration camp. In Auschwitz and other camps, he witnessed and experienced daily horrors until 1945. Although he survived, his parents and many other family members did not. Returning to Vienna in 1945, he resumed his work, becoming head physician of the neurological department at the Vienna Polyclinic Hospital. Frankl wrote more than 30 books, the most famous being Man's Search For Meaning. As a professor, he taught at many American universities, including Harvard and Stanford. He is credited with the development of logotherapy, a new style of psychotherapy. He died in Vienna in 1997. (Bowker Author Biography) |
