Dr. Timothy Pytell
Associate Professor

E-mail: tpytell@csusb.edu
Phone: (909) 537-3789
Fax: (909) 537-7645

Education

B.A., 1985, Colorado College
Ph.D., 1999, New York University

Areas of Specialization

Modern European Intellectual History
The Holocaust
History of Psychology

Courses Offered

World History II and III
The Holocaust
Modern European Intellectual History
20th Century Europe
Europe since 1945

Publications

“Was nicht in seinen Büchern steht:  Viktor Frankl und seine Auto-Biographie,” Werkblatt:  Zeitschrift  für Psychoanalyse und Gesellschaftskritik, Nr.39, 1997, Translated by Joe Berghold.

“The Missing Pieces of the Puzzle: A Reflection on the Odd Career of Viktor Frankl,” Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 35, No.2, (April 2000): 281-306.

“The Genesis of Viktor Frankl’s Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy,” The Psychoanalytic Review, 88, (2), (April 2001): 1-24.

“Redeeming the Unredeemable:  Auschwitz and Man’s Search for Meaning,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 17, No.1, (Spring 2003).

“Typology of Gray Flowers:  Levi and Frankl on Surviving Auschwitz,”  in The Legacy of Primo Levi edited by Stanilsao Pugliese (New York: Palgrave MacMillian, 2005.

“Meaning, Myth and the Biography of Viktor Frankl:  A Review of Haddon Klingberg Jr.’s, When Life Calls Out to Us:  The Love and Lifework of Viktor and Elly Frankl and Alfred Längle’s, Viktor Frankl:  Ein Porträt.” The Psychoanalytic Review, 91 (2), April 2004 (289-296).

Viktor Frankl: Das Ende eines Mythos? Boltzman Institut für Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Studienverlag: Innsbruck-Vienna-Munich, 2005.

Current Research
Interests and Projects

A project on Holocaust survivors entitled: A Typology of Gray Flowers