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Man's Search for Meaning

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An edition of ↪ /works/OL1268454W (1946)

Man's Search for Meaning

1st Pocket Books printing
  • 4.27 ·
  • 146 Ratings
  • 1165 Want to read
  • 81 Currently reading
  • 181 Have read

Viktor E. Frankl, M.D., Ph.D., distinguished professor of logotherapy at the United States International University, and visiting clinical professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, is the leader and originator of the school of logotherapy or existential analysis. He is also the author of 27 books that have been translated into 18 languages, including Japanese and Chinese.

After three grim y ears at Auschwitz and other Nazi prisons, Dr. Frankl gained freedom only to learn that almost his entire family had been wiped out. But during, and indeed partly because of, the incredible suffering and degradation of those harrowing years, he developed his theory of logotherapy.

In his preface to this book, Harvard University's Grodon W. Allport calls it "an introduction to the most significant psychological movement in our day."

"...perhaps the most significant thinking since Freud and Adler."
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Pocket
Language
English
Pages
240

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Cover of: El Hombre En Busca del Sentido
El Hombre En Busca del Sentido
November 2005, Herder & Herder
Paperback in Spanish
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Man's Search for Meaning
2004, Rider
Paperback in English - printing (10)
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Man's Search for Meaning: an introduction to logotherapy
2001, Beacon Press
in English - 4th ed. (2)
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Man's Search for Meaning
2001, Beacon Press
in English
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Man's Search for Meaning
1995, Better Yourself Books, Beacon Press
Paperback in English - India ed.
Cover of: Zašto se niste ubili traženje smisla življenja
Zašto se niste ubili traženje smisla življenja
1994, Z . Albul' [u.a.]
in Serbian
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Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy
1984, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
Paperback in English - 3rd ed. (36)
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Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy
1984, Simon & Schuster
Paperback in English - 3rd ed.; reprint (28)
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Man's Search for Meaning
1965-04, Washington Square Press
Mass Market Paperback in English - Washington Square Press edition, 6th printing
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Man's Search for Meaning: an introduction to logotherapy
1963, Beacon Press
Hardcover in English - Revised edition
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Man's Search for Meaning
1963-04, Pocket
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Pocket Books printing (32)

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New York, USA

Edition Notes

Other Titles
From Death-Camp to Existentialism
Copyright Date
1963

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages
240

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7647956M
Internet Archive
manssearchformea1963fran
ISBN 10
0671454625
ISBN 13
9780671454623
OCLC/WorldCat
41295535
Library Thing
918
Goodreads
5423270

Work Description

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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