Man's Search for Meaning
Subtitle: An Introduction to Logotherapy
By: Viktor E. Frankl ; part one translated by Ilse Lasch ; preface by Gordon W. Allport.
Edition: 3rd ed.; reprint (28)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780671244224
Copyright date: 1984
Subjects: Frankl, Viktor Emil; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects; Psychologists -- Austria -- Biography; Logotherapy
Other titles: From Death-Camp to Existentialism
Description: Few books in recent decades have had the continuing impact of Dr Viktor Frankl's <I>Man's Search for Meaning</I>—the classic best seller now considered to be one of the most important contributions to psychiatry since Freud. Frankl gives a moving account of his life amid the horrors of the Nazi death camps, chronicling the harrowing experience that led to his discovery of his theory of logotherapy. A profound revelation born out of his years as a prisoner in Auschwitz & other concentration camps, logotherapy is a modern & positive approach to the mentally or spiritually disturbed personality. Stressing the freedom to transcend suffering & find a meaning to life regardless of circumstances, it's a theory which, since its conception, has exercised a tremendous influence upon the entire field of psychiatry & psychology.

Here, Frankl not only describes the genesis & development of logotherapy but also explains its basic concepts, & in this revised enlarged edition, has included a new chapter, entitled "The Case for a Tragic Optimism," in which he updates theoretical conclusions of the book. The result is an invaluable work by one of the world's preeminent psychiatrists.
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Notes: A Touchstone Book
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Bibliography: 155-189.
Translation of: Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager.
Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Beacon Press, 1963. With new preface and postscript.