The life of Viktor Frankl, the famous psychiatrist, creator of logotherapy, has become for many people around the world a lesson in wisdom and courage, a reason for inspiration. In 1945, he was among the few who managed to survive Auschwitz. The terrible experience of the concentration camp enriched him professionally as a psychotherapist, and the scientist’s mission became helping people find the meaning of life. In this book, Frankl, with his characteristic charm of modesty, talks about his childhood and youth in Vienna, about work in a psychiatric clinic between the two world wars, about survival in a concentration camp and life after the war. He explains his differences with Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler and clarifies their influence on logotherapy, provides many details about the formation of psychoanalysis and its various directions. The autobiography of Viktor Frankl is a unique eyewitness account of the main events and spiritual turmoil of the 20th century.