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Man's Search For Meaning

The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
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If you are interested in psychology, this is a very interesting read. This was the first I'd read of logotherapy and found it highly informative. A unique and personal take on the Holocaust as well.

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"A different take on the horrors of the holocaust"
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Most of the time when we learn about the Jews in death camps its all these the physical and brutal descriptions of the horrors, the wounds, the starvation, the endless piles of corpses, but this book takes a more psychological approach and explains how exactly the Nazis broke and dehumanized the Jews into complete nonentities, into something lesser than livestock. Fankl however on top of this gives one of the most life firming stories, its all about transforming suffering, and living life.

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Translated into at least 24 languages and with over 16 million copies sold worldwide, Man's Search for Meaning is one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from the Second World War. A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances. The sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone. Only those who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influence - while those who made a victory of those experiences turned them into an inner triumph. Frankl came to believe that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.

Author Biography:

Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna in 1905 and was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School. His wife, father, mother and brother all died in Nazi concentration camps, only he and his sister survived, but he never lost the qualities of compassion, loyalty, undaunted spirit and thirst for life (earning his pilot's licence aged 67). He died in Vienna in 1997.
Release date NZ
February 7th, 2008
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Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Pages
160
Dimensions
110x178x10
ISBN-13
9781846041242
Current sales rank
Top 500
All-time sales rank
Top 1000
Product ID
11323736

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