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Mans Search For Meaning An Introduction To Logotherapy

by Viktor E Frankl
Mans Search For Meaning An Introduction To Logotherapy

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ISBN13: 9780671244224
ISBN10: 0671244221
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Man's Search for Meaning is like nothing you've ever read before. The first half of the book depicts Dr. Frankl's four years losing everything in concentration camps — a description so hellish, it leaves you desolate. Shattered by his Holocaust experiences, Frankl struggles to survive after he is freed. In the second half of the book, Frankl shows how that period of his life informs and develops his theory of "logotherapy" — he asserts that life is about finding meaning, what is meaningful to each individual. As excruciating as his experiences are, Frankl's theory is full of love; he is able to find redemption for himself and others. This book is beautifully life-changing. Recommended By Dianah H., Powells.com

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Few books in recent decades have had the continuing impact of Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning -- the classic best seller now considered to be one of the most important contributions to psychiatry since the writing of Freud. In it, Dr. 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 Dr. Frankl's years as a prisoner in Auschwitz and other concentration camps, logotherapy is a modern and positive approach to the mentally or spiritually disturbed personality. Stressing man's freedom to transcend suffering and find a meaning to his life regardless of his circumstances, it is a theory which, since its conception, has exercised a tremendous influence upon the entire field of psychiatry and psychology.

Here, Dr. Frankl not only describes the genesis and development of logotherapy but also explains its basic concepts, and in this revised and 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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Carl R. Rogers

One of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years.

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Los Angeles Times

If you read but one book this year, Dr. Frankl's book should be that one.

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Gordon W. Allport

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A compelling introduction to the most significant psychological movement of our day.

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The American Journal of Psychiatry

Perhaps the most significant thinking since Freud and Adler.


About the Author

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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Contents

Preface by Gordon W. Allport

Preface to the 1984 Edition

PART ONE

Experiences in a Concentration Camp

PART TWO

Logotherapy in a Nutshell

POSTSCRIPT 1984

The Case for a Tragic Optimism

Bibliography


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Refreshingly new insights into the world we know today as the holocaust. Refreshing because the author does not seize on his interment as a victim. Indeed Frankl emerges from the Nazi era darkness with what may well be the only beam of light available. Research, ideas and innovations become his vehicle of survival and transporter of hope. Turning a fatal hopelessness into the opportunity of a lifetime as he studies in detail both captor and captured. Discovering as he shares his understanding, more truth than most of us would care to admit. Refreshing, because Viktor Frankl refuses to let his apparent circumstances dictate the outcome apparently fated by nature of the circumstance.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780671244224
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
10/01/1984
Publisher:
POCKET BOOKS
Series info:
A Touchstone book
Pages:
189
Height:
8.4375 in.
Width:
5.5 in.
Grade Range:
General/trade
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1984
Series Volume:
Doc. no. 515
UPC Code:
2800671244226
Author:
L. Frank
Author:
Viktor E. Frankl
Preface:
Gordon W. Allport
Author:
Viktor Emil Frankl
Author:
Viktor E Frankl
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
Psychologists
Subject:
Psychoanalytic Therapy
Subject:
Logotherapy
Subject:
Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945)
Subject:
Philosophy
Subject:
War
Subject:
Frankl, viktor emil, 1905-1997
Subject:
Holocaust, jewish

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