Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl, Harold S. Kushner, William J. Winslade , Viktor Frankl

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Beacon Press (MA)
18 February 2014

The Holocaust; Judaism; Society & culture: general; Psychology; Psychological theory & schools of thought

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. 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.

When Man's Search for Meaning was first published in 1959, it was hailed by Carl Rogers as ""one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years."" Now, more than forty years and 4 million copies later, this tribute to hope in the face of unimaginable loss has emerged as a true classic. Man's Search for Meaning--at once a memoir, a self-help book, and a psychology manual-is the story of psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's struggle for survival during his three years in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Yet rather than ""a tale concerned with the great horrors,"" Frankl focuses in on the ""hard fight for existence"" waged by ""the great army of unknown and unrecorded.""

Viktor Frankl's training as a psychiatrist allowed him a remarkable perspective on the psychology of survival. In these inspired pages, he asserts that the ""the will to meaning"" is the basic motivation for human life. This simple and yet profound statement became the basis of his psychological theory, logotherapy, and forever changed the way we understand our humanity in the face of suffering. As Nietzsche put it, ""He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."" Frankl's seminal work offers us all an avenue to greater meaning and purpose in our own lives-a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the act of living.

By: Viktor E. Frankl, Viktor Frankl
Afterword by: William J. Winslade
Foreword by: Harold S. Kushner, Harold S Kushner
Imprint: Beacon Press (MA)
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: large type edition
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 180mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 584g
ISBN: 9780807000007
ISBN 10: 0807000000
Pages: 299
Publication Date: 18 February 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

<b>Viktor E. Frankl</b>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.

Reviews for Man's Search for Meaning

One of the ten most influential books in America. -Library of Congress/Book-of-the-Month Club Survey of Lifetime Readers Viktor Frankl's timeless formula for survival. One of the classic psychiatric texts of our time, Man's Search for Meaning is a meditation on the irreducible gift of one's own counsel in the face of great suffering, as well as a reminder of the responsibility each of us owes in valuing the community of our humanity. There are few wiser, kinder, or more comforting challenges than Frankl's. -Patricia J. Williams, author of Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race Dr. Frankl's words have a profoundly honest ring, for they rest on experiences too deep for deception... A gem of a dramatic narrative, focused upon the deepest of human problems. -Gordon W. Allport, from the Preface An enduring work of survival literature. -The New York Times [Man's Search for Meaning] might well be prescribed for everyone who would understand our time. -Journal of Individual Psychology An inspiring document of an amazing man who was able to garner some good from an experience so abysmally bad... Highly recommended. -Library Journal One of the great books of our time. -Harold S. Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People One of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years. -Carl R. Rogers (1959)