Man's Search for Meaning

ISBN-13: 9780807014271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 192 str.

Viktor E. Frankl

Opis

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. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, 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. Frankl's 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.

At the time of Frankl's death in 1997, Man's Search for Meaning had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. A 1991 reader survey for the Library of Congress that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America.

Beacon Press, the original English-language publisher of Man's Search for Meaning, is issuing this new paperback edition with a new Foreword, biographical Afterword, jacket, price, and classroom materials to reach new generations of readers.

Recenzje

One of the ten most influential books in America. Library of Congress/Book-of-the-Month Club "Survey of Lifetime Readers"

"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

This is a book I try to read every couple of years. It s one of the most inspirational books ever written. What is the meaning of life? What do you have when you think you have nothing? Amazing and heartbreaking stories. This is a book that should be in everyone s library.
Jimmy Fallon

This is a book I reread a lot . . . it gives me hope . . . it gives me a sense of strength.
Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNN
 
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)

O autorze

Viktor E. Frankl 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.

Harold S. Kushner is rabbi emeritus at Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, and the author of bestselling books including When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Living a Life That Matters, and When All You ve Ever Wanted Isn t Enough.

William J. Winslade is a philosopher, lawyer, and psychoanalyst who teaches psychiatry, medical ethics, and medical jurisprudence at the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston.