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...

The author was able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest. It offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.

From psychotherapy to Logotherapy. Is there any meaning to life? In this internationally acclaimed book Dr Frankl draws on his experience in Nazi concentration camps and argues that the most important need of the individual is to find meaning to life.

Holocaust survivor Viktor E. Frankl is known as the founder of logotherapy, a mode of psychotherapy based on man's motivation to search for meaning in his life. The author discusses his ideas in the context of other prominent psychotherapies and describes the techniques he uses with his patients to combat the "existential vacuum."

Originally published in 1969 and compiling Frankl's speeches on logotherapy, The Will to Meaning is regarded as a seminal work of meaning-centered therapy. This new and carefully re-edited version is the first since 1988.

A new gift edition of a modern classic, with supplemental photographs, speeches, letters, and essays

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl s memoir of life in Nazi death camps has riveted generations of readers. Based on Frankl s own experience and the stories of his patients, the book argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward. Man s Search for Meaning has become one of the most influential books of our times, selling over twelve million copies worldwide. With a foreword by Harold S. Kushner, Frankl s...

Kniha je základním dílem tzv. logoterapie, což je léčba smyslem. Logoterapie jako moderní psychoterapeutická metoda je v tomto díle také nejsystematičtěji a nejinstruktivněji vyložena v obecném i specifickém plánu, a kniha je nejlepším pracovním úvodem do logoterapie. Kniha je kultovním dílem tzv. logoterapie - léčbou smyslem. Moderní psychoteraupetická metoda je v publikaci vyložena nejsystematičtěji a nejinstruktivněji v obecném i specifickém plánu.

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