The life of Viktor Frankl, the famous psychiatrist, creator of logotherapy, has become for many around the world a lesson in wisdom and courage, an occasion 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 mission of the scientist was to help people in search of the meaning of life. In this book, Frankl, with his characteristic charm of modesty, tells about childhood and youth in Vienna, about working in a psychiatric clinic between the two world wars, about surviving 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, gives many details about the development of psychoanalysis and its various directions.