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Man's search for meaning

Frankl, Viktor E. (Viktor Emil), 1905-1997

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In this work, a Viennese psychiatrist tells his grim experiences in a German concentration camp which led him to logotherapy, an existential method of psychiatry. This work has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 the author, a psychiatrist labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the stories of his many patients, he 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. His theory, known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos (meaning), holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.

• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Subject: Frankl, Viktor E. 1905-1997. / Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives. / Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Psychological aspects. / Psychologists Austria Biography. / Concentration camp inmates Biography. / Logotherapy. / Meaning (Psychology)
• ISBN: 9780807014264, 0807014265, 9780807014271, 0807014273

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
D805.G3 F7233 2006	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE