Pytell later would remark on the particularly sharp insight of Langer's reading of Frankl's Holocaust testimony, stating that with Langer's criticism published in 1982 before Pytell's biography, the former had thus drawn the controversial parallels, or accommodations in ideology without the knowledge that Victor Frankl was an advocate/"embraced"Austrian Lives By Günter Bischof pg 241-242 the key ideas of the Nazi psychotherapy movement ("will and responsibility"Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning: An Emblematic 20th-Century Life By Timothy Pytell pg 70-72, 111) as a form of therapy in the late 1930s. When at that time Frankl would submit a paper and contributed to the Göring institute in Vienna 1937 and again in early 1938 connecting the logotherapy focus on "world-view" to the "work of some of the leading Nazi psychotherapists",Austrian Lives By Günter Bischof pg 242 both at a time before Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938.Austrian Lives By Günter Bischof p.255"What is perhaps most impressive about Langer's reading is that he was unaware of Frankl's 1937 article promoting a form of psychotherapy palatable to the Nazis". Frankl's founding logotherapy paper, was submitted to and published in the the journal of the Goering Institute, a psychotherapy movement, with the "proclaimed agenda of building psychotherapy that affirmed a Nazi-oriented worldview".
Pytell later would remark on the particularly sharp insight of Langer's reading of Frankl's Holocaust testimony, stating that with Langer's criticism published in 1982 before Pytell's biograp:hy, the former had thus drawn the controversial parallels, or accommodations in ideology without the knowledge that Victor Frankl was an advocate/"embraced"Austrian Lives By Günter Bischof pg 241-242 the key ideas of the Nazi psychotherapy movement ("will and responsibility"?Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning: An Emblematic 20th-Century Life By Timothy Pytell pg 70-72, 111) as a form of therapy in the late 1930s. When at that time Frankl would submit a paper and contributed to the Göring inst,itute in Vienna 1937 and again in early 1938 connecting the logotherapy focus on "world-view" to the "work of some of the leading Nazi psychotherapists",Austrian Live.s By Günter Bischof pg 242 both at a time before Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938.Austrian Lives By Günter Bischof p.255"What is perhaps most impressive about Langer's reading is that he was unaware of Frankl's 1937 article promoting a form of psychotherapy palatable to the Nazis". Frankl's founding logotherapy paper, was submitted to and published in the the journal of the Goering Institute, a psychotherapy movement, with the "proclaimed agenda of building psychotherapy that affirmed a Nazi-oriented worldview".