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  Viktor Emil Frankl (Vienna, Austria, March 26, 1905–September 2, 1997), known as Viktor Frankl, was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist and philosopher, founder of logotherapy and existential analysis. Early years He was born in the Austrian capital into a family of Jewish origin. His father was a parliamentary stenographer until he became minister of Social Affairs. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna, specializing in neurology and psychiatry. From 1933 to 1937, he worked at the Vienna General Hospital. From 1937 to 1940, he practiced psychiatry privately. From 1940 to 1942, he headed the neurology department of the Rothschild Hospital (the only hospital in Vienna where Jews were admitted). Deportation: concentration camps In September 1942, he, his wife, and his parents were deported to Theresienstadt, a concentration camp near Prague. From 1942 to 1945, he was in four concentration camps, including Auschwitz, known as the death camp. What he experienced in those ...

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (July 8, 1926–August 24, 2004) was a Swiss-born psychiatrist, a pioneer in Near-death studies and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying (1969), where she first discussed what is now known as the Kübler-Ross model.  In this work, she proposed the now-famous Five Stages of Grief™ as a changing pattern. These five stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The five stages have since been adopted into The Kübler-Ross Change Curve™ by many corporations to train employees in change and loss.  In 1970, she delivered the Ingersoll Lectures on Human Immortality at the University of Harvard, on the theme, On Death and Dying. During the 1970s and 1980s, she helped start over 50 hospices around the world. In 1985 she created the world’s first prison hospice in Vacaville, California. She is a 2007 inductee into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. She was the recipient of twenty honorary degrees and by July 1982 ...