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I have read this book many, many times. These are the words I live by. If I was told that I could only own one book for the rest of my life, this would be it. Viktor Frankl's harrowing testimony of surviving in a concentration camp seems incomprehensible. Even more unbelievable is the attitude he adopts during his struggle as he remains apart from his family, starving, cold, and forced to perform hard labor with no relief in sight. Through it all, he decides that even though his body is being held captive, he is still free to control his mind and his attitude.

When he is ultimately liberated from the concentration camp, rather than be bitter and remorseful, he uses his tragic experiences as a basis for logotherapy, a counseling theory that helps people to find meaning in their adversity. He also influences a generation of existential psychotherapists including another favorite writer of mine, Irvin Yalom. This is an incredible book that significantly altered my life and way of thinking. I recommend it to everyone.

Barcelona Insight Guide (Insight Guides) Overview

This updated edition of a guidebook on Barcelona shows how the city developed into the main centre of Catalonia. It includes up-to-date, easy-to-decipher maps. There are also tips on travel, excursions, accommodation and restaurants.

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Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere, and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl's imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years, and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live. The second part of the book, called "Logotherapy in a Nutshell," describes the psychotherapeutic method that Frankl pioneered as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps. Freud believed that sexual instincts and urges were the driving force of humanity's life; Frankl, by contrast, believes that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. Frankl's logotherapy, therefore, is much more compatible with Western religions than Freudian psychotherapy. This is a fascinating, sophisticated, and very human book. At times, Frankl's personal and professional discourses merge into a style of tremendous power. "Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is," Frankl writes. "After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips."

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Customer Reviews

A must read - Elizabeth A. Swigar - Buffalo, NY
This book is a must read for anyone in the field of psychology, and anyone in the field of life...everyone. Frankl intersperses his experiences in the concentration camp with an exploration of psychology and resilience in the face of the worst circumstances known to mankind. The existential results of his explorations and thoughts are incredible, and they are balm to anyone suffering a psychic or a circumstantial wound... that we have a will to find meaning as human beings. The final lines of the book before the postscript sum up the state of mankind: "...man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright..." and like the rest of the book, use a straightforward prose to convey the richest of ideas.

Good book - Corianne Aubry -
I had to read this book for a class, but it turned out to be a very interesting and good book to read.

Buy this book and read it. Then read it again. - Goldfinch -
Other books in my library collect dust. This one doesn't. Every time I read it, I see a little deeper into our frail weaknesses and our incredible well of strength. Frankl's account of the concentration camp is singular in its impact on how I see our world and our place in it -- ultimately, a place of hope and meaning, and a place where we are in control of that meaning. The best seven dollars I've ever spent. If you haven't bought it already, click "add to cart" now!

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