TY  - BOOK
AU  - Viktor Emil Frankl
AU  - Ilse Lasch
AU  - Harold S. Kushner
TI  - Man's Search for Meaning
SN  - 080701429X
PY  - 2006///
CY  - USA
PB  - Beacon Press
KW  - English
KW  - Personal narratives
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - Psychologists
KW  - Nazi concentration camp inmates
KW  - Meaning (Psychology)
KW  - Logotherapy
KW  - Existentialism
KW  - Prisons
KW  - Psychotherapy
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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