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Viktor Emil Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning - USA Beacon Press 2006 - 165 20

Foreword / Harold S. Kushner -- Preface to the 1992 edition / by Viktor E. Frankl -- Experiences in a concentration camp -- Logotherapy in a nutshell -- Postscript 1984: The case for a tragic optimism -- Afterword / William J. Winslade

This author's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, he argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward. At the heart of his theory, known as logotherapy, is a conviction that the primary human drive is not pleasure but the pursuit of what we find meaningful. This book has become one of the most influential books in America; it continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living
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afterword by William J. Winslade

080701429X 9780807014295

1959

English


Personal narratives
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Psychologists
Nazi concentration camp inmates
Meaning (Psychology)
Logotherapy
Existentialism
Prisons
Psychotherapy