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Man's Search For Meaning (Mass Market Paperbac) (Paperback)
by Viktor E. Frankl
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Philosophy, Life's meaning, Psychiatric literature, Classics |
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Believing that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose, Viktor E. Frankl's book is fascinating, sophisticated, and human. |
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Author: Viktor E. Frankl
Publisher: Pocket; 4 edition
Pub. in: December, 1997
ISBN: 0671023373
Pages: 224
Measurements: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA01037
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0671023379
Language: American English
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This classic is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. |
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Part autobiography, part psychotherapy, and part philosophy, this book is one of the most important and meaningful works of non-fiction that I have ever read. It is rare to find an author who gets right to the heart of what it means to be human. Viktor Frankl does this with a well-reasoned theory of human motivation and an intensely powerful life story.
Frankl's main idea, namely that man's primary motivational force is his search for meaning in life, is so simple and yet so profound. Through his gripping account of his experience in the Nazi concentration camps, he describes how all the prisoners responded differently than others to the torture and abuses that they faced. Some behaved like animals, while others literally gave their last crumb of bread to a fellow prisoner even though they were all equally hungry. From this experience he developed the notion of what he calls the last human freedom - the ability to choose one's response to any given set of circumstances. And he concludes that in order to endure the horrors of the concentration camps, it was necessary to always have a sense of a future life purpose - a believe that there was some reason to keep on living.
Viktor Frankl's book should be considered essential reading for anyone with an interest in psychotherapy or personal leadership. It is one of the few works of non-fiction that I have come across that has virtually universal appeal and applicability.
(From quoting Matthew Krichman, USA)
Target readers:
Everyone who ever wondered what the meaning of life is.
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Viktor E. Frankl is Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School and Distinguished Professor of Logotherapy at the U.S. International University. He is the founder of what has come to be called the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy (after Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's individual psychology) -- the school of logotherapy.
Born in 1905, Dr. Frankl received the degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Vienna. During World War II he spent three years at Auschwitz, Dachau and other concentration camps.
Dr. Frankl first published in 1924 in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and has since published twenty-six books, which have been translated into nineteen languages, including Japanese and Chinese. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Duquesne and Southern Methodist Universities. Honorary Degrees have been conferred upon him by Loyola University in Chicago, Edgecliff College, Rockford College and Mount Mary College, as well as by universities in Brazil and Venezuela. He has been a guest lecturer at universities throughout the world and has made fifty-one lecture tours throughout the United States alone. He is President of the Austrian Medical Society of Psychotherapy.
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From Publisher
Internationally renowned psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl endured years of unspeakable horror in Nazi death camps. During, and partly because of, his suffering, Dr. Frankl developed a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy known as logotherapy. At the core of his theory is the belief that man's primary motivational force is his search for meaning.
Cited in Dr. Frankl's New York Times obituary in 1997 as "an enduring work of survival literature," Man's Search for Meaning is more than the story of Viktor E. Frankl's triumph: it is a remarkable blend of science and humanism and "an introduction to the most significant psychological movement of our day" (Gordon W. Allport).
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Quotes from the book
1. "An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior."
2. "Suffering is [a]... part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete."
3. "Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual."
4. "No one has the right to do harm, not even if wrong has been done to them."
5. "Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influence alone. Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him - mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp."
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The American Journal of Psychiatry (MSL quote), USA
<2007-11-02 00:00>
Perhaps the most significant thinking since Freud and Adler. |
New York Times (MSL quote), USA
<2007-11-02 00:00>
An enduring work of survival literature. |
Amazon.com (MSL quote), USA
<2007-11-02 00:00>
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere, and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl's imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years, and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live. The second part of the book, called "Logotherapy in a Nutshell," describes the psychotherapeutic method that Frankl pioneered as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps. Freud believed that sexual instincts and urges were the driving force of humanity's life; Frankl, by contrast, believes that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. Frankl's logotherapy, therefore, is much more compatible with Western religions than Freudian psychotherapy. This is a fascinating, sophisticated, and very human book. At times, Frankl's personal and professional discourses merge into a style of tremendous power. "Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is," Frankl writes. "After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips."
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Matthew Morrison (MSL quote), USA
<2007-11-02 00:00>
This is by far the most inspiring book I've ever read. Starting with a firsthand account of the holocaust, and finishing with a psychoanalytical approach to the suffering which took place there, Frankl shows us his ability to objectively analyse and draw conslusions from his own experiences. His story is not one of bitterness, as one might expect, but one of survival, of deep meaning and optimism. He looks back to his holocause experience with the eye of one truly at peace with himself and his life. It is truly beautiful that one can endure such a process, even at times, questioning their will to live, and come out liberated both in body and spirit. In his toughest times, Frankl thought frequently of the love he had for his wife; this love, his meaning to survive when in the depths of hell, gave me a new outlook on my life. Frankl's story is a testament to his own philosophy. That he could survive such a trial, when the mind becomes desensitized, focusing only on the day to day camp regimen, surrounded by death at every turn, is a beautiful and inspiring fact. He allows you into the frame of mind of a holocaust victim, and poses the question of how one, once liberated physically from the camps, could even begin to reenter a society so different from the atmosphere they'd come to know. His ability to find his "will to meaning," and optimistaically help others, through logotherapy, to find a meaning in their lives, is, again, truly inspiring. Unlike some of my fellow reviewers, I find this optimism inspiring and wonderful, not naive and idealistic. We should reward him for having achieved peace in his life, especially after an experience like that, not offer pointless pessimism. This book allows you to take an emotional journey into the holocaust, seeing its effects on the mind, and gives an inspiring and optimistic look toward ways to not only survive that experience, but to turn it into something meaningful. |
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