Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy Book

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."Read More

from£110.37 | RRP: £
* Excludes Voucher Code Discount Also available Used from £29.62
  • Product Description

    The author is the leader and originator of the school of logotherapy or existential analysis. He is also the author of numerous books that have been translated into a wide variety of languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide. After three grim years at Auschwitz and other Nazi prisons, Dr. Frankl gained freedom at the war's end 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 difficult years, he developed his theory of logotherapy. In the preface to this book, Harvard University's Gordon Allport calls it "an introduction to the most significant psychological movement of our day." And his theory is perhaps the most important since Freud and Adler.

  • 067147152X
  • 9780671471521
  • Dr.viktor frankl
  • 20 September 1968
  • Pocket
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 214
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. If you click through any of the links below and make a purchase we may earn a small commission (at no extra cost to you). Click here to learn more.

Would you like your name to appear with the review?

We will post your book review within a day or so as long as it meets our guidelines and terms and conditions. All reviews submitted become the licensed property of www.find-book.co.uk as written in our terms and conditions. None of your personal details will be passed on to any other third party.

All form fields are required.