Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
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Man's Search for Meaning has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 psychiatrist Viktor Frankl 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, 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. In the decades since its first publication in 1959, Man's Search for Meaning has become a classic, with more than twelve million copies in print around the world. A 1991 Library of Congress survey 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. At once a memoir, a meditation, a treatise, and a history, it continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living.
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Man's Search for Meaning
2007, Beacon Press
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Man's Search for Meaning
2006, Beacon Press
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Man's Search for Meaning
1995, Better Yourself Books, Beacon Press
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Man's Search for Meaning
1985 02, Pocket Books
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in English
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Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy
1984, Simon & Schuster
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- 3rd ed.; reprint (28)
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Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy
1969-10, Washington Square Press
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in English and German
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Man's Search for Meaning
1965-04, Washington Square Press
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Man's Search for Meaning: an introduction to logotherapy
1963, Beacon Press
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Man's Search for Meaning
1963-04, Pocket
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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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