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Watch our curated video collection to learn more about Viktor Frankl and Logotherapy, captured during his lifetime as well as recent news features.

Films

Watch our curated video collection to learn more about Viktor Frankl and Logotherapy, captured during his lifetime as well as recent news features.

A feature adaptation of Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning is coming soon.

Poster for "Viktor & I," a movie by Alex Vesely, shows Viktor Frankl looking ahead in contemplation.
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Viktor & I

A Documentary Film

Viktor and I, an Alexander Vesely Film is a fascinating documentary about the personal and unique side of Dr. Viktor Frankl, author of “Man’s Search for Meaning.”

Several stories up, Viktor Frankl looks out the window with a city skyline in the distance.
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A Powerful Interview with Alex Vesely

Books to Business Podcast

Learn about Alex’s documentary that captures the impact Viktor Frankl had with everyone he came in contact with, as well as, his extensive research and practice of Logotherapy.

Viktor Frankl speaking at an event.
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Viktor Frankl – Pioneer of Meaning

Noetic Films

A first look at the upcoming feature documentary by Noetic Films.

Viktor Frankl sits near a TV interviewer in 1963.
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Why Meaning Matters

Noetic Films

In this 1963 TV interview Viktor Frankl, author of “Man´s Search for Meaning” describes the basics of his meaning-centered psychotherapy also known as Logotherapy and Existential Analysis- the first in the field of resource-oriented, existential-, or positive psychology.

Viktor Frankl is interviewed on TV in 1972.
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Our Need for Meaning and Purpose

Noetic Films

In this TV interview from 1972, Viennese psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, author of “Man’s Search for Meaning” explains the question of meaning and the central role it plays in his Logotherapy.

Viktor Frankl sits nearby Dr. Houston Smith during a 1965 interviewl
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Why Education is Failing

Noetic Films

In this 1965 dialogue with Dr. Houston Smith, Viktor Frankl touches upon the problems of the educational system in America, mainly its’ incapacity to accept students as individual beings in search for meaning.

Each man is unique and each man’s life is singular; no one is replaceable nor is his life repeatable.

Viktor Frankl discusses why youngsters need challenges during a 1979 interview.
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Youngsters Need Challenges

Noetic Films

“Instead of ideals and challenges, young people are being pampered” – and have to deal with the consequences. In 1979 Viktor Frankl discusses the psychological dangers of under-challenge and reductionistic indoctrination on U.S. campuses.

Viktor Frankl contrasts Logotherapy against deterministic views of modern psychotherapy in one of his final TV interviews.
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Self-actualization is Not the Goal

Noetic Films

In one of his final television interviews Viennese psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, author of “Man’s Search for Meaning” explains how Logotherapy’s concepts of meaning and self-transcendence contrast the deterministic views of modern psychotherapy.

Viktor Frankl discusses how the increase of prosperity and security are contributing to the rising suicide numbers during a TV interview.
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Prosperity and the Rise of Suicide

Noetic Films

In this live TV interview, Viktor Frankl explains how the increase of prosperity and security are contributing to the world wide increase of feelings of meaninglessness and rising suicide numbers due to consumer society ignoring the most fundamental of all human needs, namely the need for meaning.

Marking 50 years since Austria's annexation by Germany in 1938, Viktor Frankl speaks against "collective guilt" at the event.
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Collective Guilt Does Not Exist

Noetic Films

Viktor Frankl, author of “Man’s Search for Meaning” speaks out against the concept of “collective guilt” as a continuation of Nazi-ideology. A seminal speech held in 1988 on the occasion of Austria´s annexation by Nazi Germany 1938.