This paper explains that, having gone through truly agonizing and painful experiences in Auschwitz from 1943-45, Viktor Frankl
founded a new school of
psychotherapy that focused on meaning of life and man's connection with the soul and universe. The author points out that Frankl's theory of psychotherapy gave birth to the school of
logotherapy, which at its core, is his theory that "will to meaning" keeps a person alive and serves as the primary motivating force. The paper relates that logotherapy assists patients in developing a systematic meaningful story from which to draw answers to their numerous queries; the patient, who wants to know why he should not commit suicide when there are so many problems can be helped to see that his question contains a glimmer of hope.