Man's Search for Meaning
Edition: 3rd printing
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780807014295
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Psychology; Biography / Autobiography; Social Psychology; Historical - Holocaust; Personal Memoirs; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Psychotherapy - Counseling
Description: Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl'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, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. 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. Man's Search for Meaning 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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Notes: U.S.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Harold S. Kushner --; title: Preface to the 1992 edition --; title: Experiences in a concentration camp --; title: Logotherapy in a nutshell --; title: Postscript 1984: The case for a tragic optimism --; title: Afterword / William J. Winslade.