Man's search for meaning : the classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

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Title:

Man's search for meaning : the classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

Author:

Frankl, Viktor E. (Viktor Emil), 1905-1997.

ISBN:

9781844132393

Personal Author:

Frankl, Viktor E. (Viktor Emil), 1905-1997.

Uniform Title:

Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager. English

Publication Information:

London : Rider, 2004.

Physical Description:

154 pages ; 18 cm

General Note:

Translation of: Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager.

Original English title: From death-camp to existentialism.

Originally published: 1959.

Abstract:

In 'Man's Search for Meaning', Dr. Frankl offers an account of his life amid the horrors of the Nazi death camps, chronicling the harrowing experience that led to the discovery of his theory of logotherapy.

Personal Subject:

Frankl, Viktor Emil.

Subject Term:

Existential psychotherapy.

Logotherapy.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.

Psychologists -- Austria -- Biography.

Added Author:

Frankl, Viktor E. (Viktor Emil), 1905-1997. Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager. English.

Added Title:

From death-camp to existentialism.

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'A book to read, to cherish, to debate, and one that will ultimately keep the memories of the victims alive' John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances. The sort of person the concentration camp prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone. Frankl came to believe man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.