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Average customer rating:  Country: United States of AmericaFormat: Mass market paperback
Contributor: Gordon W. AllportPublisher: Washington Square PressISBN: 9780671023379
Publication date: January 1984
Length: 172mm
Width: 107mm
Thickness: 15mm
Weight: 109g
Pages: 224
Readership: General; Tertiary education
Man's Search for Meaning
Author: Viktor Emil Frankl
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Now in its 60th year -- the landmark bestseller by the great Viennese psychiatrist remembered for his tremendous impact on humanity Internationally renowned psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl endured years of unspeakable horror in Nazi death camps. During, and partly because of, his suffering, Dr. Frankl developed a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy known as logotherapy. At the core of his theory is the belief that man's primary motivational force is his search for meaning. Cited in Dr. Frankl's" New York Times" obituary in 1997 as "an enduring work of survival literature," Man's Search for Meaning is more than the story of Viktor E. Frankl's triumph: It is a remarkable blend of science and humanism and "a compelling introduction to the most significant psychological movement of our day" (Gordon W. Allport).
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 All time top 10Reviewed by Mrs Janet Winterbourne from Cape Town South Africa on 09 December 2005
848 of 1683 people found the following review helpful:
If I were to select my 10 all time best books this would be amongst them.
Having read and re-read this book I found it to be enlightening and educational, Frankl's theory of God being within us was particularly fascinating.
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 Brilliant but take it with a touch of saltReviewed by Zahir Jacobs from Cape Town, South Africa on 11 October 2002
931 of 1885 people found the following review helpful:
this deep and moving account of mr frankl's time spent in the nazi death camps of ww2 and his eventual development of the theory of logotherapy is a book by which millions of people have already been enthralled. and i wonder why? the title is misleading. despite the title of this book it does not teach you the meaning of life, nor does it document how you should try to, instead the central theme of this book is that no matter what the cause the cause of, or for, your suffering the ultimate dignity and worth of a human lies in how you choose both to deal with and accept what life presents you with. and the idea that meaning and understanding in life lies in the individual's 'active and never-ending' search for, and celebration of, something higher than himself... in one of the best passages of the book he tells us that we shouldn't remain stuck in an endless loop thinking about what we need out of life, but rather what life expects from us.
readers may find mr frankl a bit obsessed with relating his experiences of war-time suffering, to the point that some of it becomes unbelievable and you almost get the distinct idea that large portions of detail were added much later on to 'fill out' the book, but never the less mr frankl's golden contribution to enriching our shared understanding of life and the suffering which it sometimes is is something none of us can easily deny.
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