Man's Search for Meaning

An Introduction to Logotherapy

Paperback, 189 pages

English language

Published Jan. 13, 1984 by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster.

ISBN:
9780671244224
OCLC Number:
1043527026

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Few books in recent decades have had the continuing impact of Dr Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning—the classic best seller now considered to be one of the most important contributions to psychiatry since Freud. Frankl gives a moving account of his life amid the horrors of the Nazi death camps, chronicling the harrowing experience that led to his discovery of his theory of logotherapy. A profound revelation born out of his years as a prisoner in Auschwitz & other concentration camps, logotherapy is a modern & positive approach to the mentally or spiritually disturbed personality. Stressing the freedom to transcend suffering & find a meaning to life regardless of circumstances, it's a theory which, since its conception, has exercised a tremendous influence upon the entire field of psychiatry & psychology.

Here, Frankl not only describes the genesis & development of logotherapy but also explains its basic concepts, & …

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Subjects

  • Frankl, Viktor Emil.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
  • Psychologists -- Austria -- Biography.
  • Logotherapy.