Man's Search for Meaning

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos ("meaning")-holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.

At the time of Frankl's death in 1997, Man's Search for Meaning had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. A 1991 reader survey for the Library of Congress that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America.

Beacon Press, the original English-language publisher of Man's Search for Meaning, is issuing this new paperback edition with a new Foreword, biographical Afterword, jacket, price, and classroom materials to reach new generations of readers.

This book should be a required reading for every human being on earth. It demonstrates what having a purpose and passion in life can mean to an individual. Frankl vividly discusses his torture as well as the other prisoners and describes how he found meaning to get through a day at a time. After reading this book youll definitely know that you can find meaning and purpose in anything and you can also survive any challenge that life hands you. Read it and live it.

This simply written little book contains a very great truth that is immediately usable by anyone who cares to internalize it. The book tries to communicate through the use of quite remarkable real life examples from Nazi concentration camps, the lesson that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions whatsoever, even the most misarable ones. it teaches that we must always say YES to life in spite of all tragic aspects of human existence. A psychology classic worth reading by anyone.

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Man's Search for Meaning Details

• Paperback: 168 pages


• Author: Viktor E. Frankl


• Afterword: William J. Winslade


• Foreword: Harold S. Kushner


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 0807014273


• ISBN-13: 978-0807014271


• Publisher: Beacon Press; 1 edition (June 1, 2006)


• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.6 x 8.4 inches

About the Author

Viktor E. Frankl was professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School until his death in 1997. His twenty-nine books have been translated into twenty-one languages. During World War II, he spent three years in Auschwitz, Dachau, and other concentration camps.

Harold S. Kushner is rabbi emeritus at Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, and the author of bestselling books including When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Living a Life That Matters, and When All You’ve Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough.

William J. Winslade is a philosopher, lawyer, and psychoanalyst who teaches psychiatry, medical ethics, and medical jurisprudence at the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston.

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