AHP readers will be interested in a new book Viktor Frankl and the Shoah: Advancing the Debate by Alexander Batthyány. The book:

• Provides a new perspective on the work of Viktor Frankl, the founder of logotherapy
• Adds important corrections in traditional historical accounts
• Explores the practice of psychotherapy before and after the Holocaust

Contents

The Debate
Introduction
How Not to Reconstruct History
1925–1940
1925–1933: From Red Vienna to the Corporative State
1936–1940: The Medical Society for Psychotherapy and the Göring Institute (Berlin/Vienna)
1940–1945
1940–1942: At the Rothschild Hospital
1942–1945: Theresienstadt – Auschwitz – Kaufering – Türkheim
Aftermath
1946: Man’s Search for Meaning
1946–1997: Review—Frankl on the Holocaust