Doctor and Soul. Logotherapy and existential analysis. 2nd edition. Frankl V.E.

What is the secret of healing when it comes to the soul of a person? In the figure of a psychotherapist, in a correctly selected technique or medicine, in the desire of the patient himself? Where is the line between medicine and philosophy in these complex issues? This book is the main scientific work of Victor Frankl, the first version of which he wrote before the deportation to the concentration camp. Exploring the conceptual and empirical approaches in psychiatry, Frankl complements the understanding of the soul with the concept of spirit as a person’s nucleus that remains intact in any disease, shows the role of existential analysis in the treatment of mental disorders - from neurosis and depression to schizophrenic psychoses.

The patient turns to a psychiatrist, desperate in search of the purpose and meaning of life. And in this search, Frankl sees the main aspiration and the most important task of a person, it is on it that he builds his own method (logo - therapy), which helps to understand, find, return the meanings - the meaning of life, suffering, work and love.