Viktor Emil Frankl was born on March 26, 1905, in Czeringassa 7, in Leopoldstadt, Vienna Austria, where Sigmund Freud and Alfred Alder also grew up (Klingberg, 2014). He was the middle child of three children. His older brother, Walter, was two and a half years older than him, and his younger sister, Stella, was four years younger. His mother was Elsa Frankl, she was a kind-hearted Polish woman from Prague. His father, Gabriel Frankl, had been a hard worker and was director of social affairs (Redsand, 2006). When Frankl was four years old he knew he wanted to be a doctor and pursued this interest while in high school. He took courses focused on psychology and philosophy. He began corresponding with Freud when he was 16, sending him letters about his ideas and each time Freud responded with a postcard with his thoughts (Redsand, 2006). In 1924 he sent Freud an article on psychoanalysis on the mimic movements of affirmation and denial which Freud then published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis three years later (Frankl, 2006). Frankl graduated in 1925 and went on to study neurology and psychiatry at the University of Vienna, the same school his father had attended years earlier, although he had to discontinue his studies due to financial difficulties after five years of school (Frankl, 2006) . During this year Frankl became more interested in Alders' theory and published a psychoanalytic article entitled "Psychotherapy and Weltanschauung" in the Adlers International Journal of Individual Psychology (Pytell, 2003). Frankl graduated in 1930 and specialized in depression and suicide. was at school created a suicide prevention center for teenagers. He then used the term logotherapy......middle of the paper......can be taken from a man but one thing: the ultimate human freedom: choosing one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, choosing one's own way..." (Page 25, Frankl, 2006). Works cited Bruner, T. (2012). Pascal Bruckner: guilt in the Western conscience with the perspectives of Karl Jaspers and Viktor Frankl. Existence, 7.Frankl , V. E. (2006). Man's Search for Meaning. Boston: Beacon Press. Haddon Klingberg Jr. (2004) This. unbearable boredom of being. New York: IUniverse, Print.Logarta, E. (2009). : Clarion Books.Timothy E. Pytell, (2003). “Redeeming the Irredeemable: Auschwitz and Man's Search for Meaning,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 17.1 89-113.