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Title: Recollections: An Autobiography by Viktor E. Frankl, Joseph Fabry, Judith Fabry ISBN: 0-7382-0355-6 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: July, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: SNAPSHOTS OF A LIFE
Comment: Viktor Frankl has presented us with snap shots of the key events in his life. These recollections were never intended for publication but through the encouragement of his publisher this slim volume was made available for readers. Thus begins our journey in looking at the life of the founder of Logotherapy and the author of "Man's Search for Meaning."
Frankl's life is filled with interesting portraits. We learn of his mother's patrician background and the fact that she was descended from a family of prominent rabbis. His father was a struggling student and was director of the government's Ministry of Social Services.
We get to see this inquisitive young man as he is impacted by Freud, Hirschmann, Schilder and Adler as he begins to step int the field of psychoanalysis. Through his philosophical questionings and debates with these giants in the field we find Frankl developing his own methodology. March of 1938 became a turing point for the young man as his country is invaded by the Nazis and he is placed in a concentration camp. From that experience wee see a new personality arising who meets the psychological, emotional and spiritual tensions in his life with utmost grace.We see a man who has the opportunity to leave Austria and avoid the concentration camps but he elects to stay and care for his parents.
Unfortunately this memoir is not a full autobiography of Frankl. You receive sketches of his life and end up wanting more. Read in conjunction with Man's Search for Meaning, the reader can gain further insight on this great personality. I believe this book serves as a supplemental text for the author's Man Search for Meaning." Hopefully a full scale biographical work will come out on Frankl. Until then, this slender volume will whet your appetite to learn more about this great man.
Rating: 4
Summary: The man behind Logotherapy
Comment: "Recollections" is episodic, much like sharing a cup of coffee with a casual acquaintance and trying to divine their life story from those conversations. Dr. Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" is a landmark book for many seekers--including me--and I jumped at the chance to read this so-called autobiography of a giant in the field of diagnosing modern society's malaise. The book is a pleasant read, with Dr. Frankl's humor guiding the narrative. There's not much in the way of how Dr. Frankl coped with returning from concentration camps to find every member of his family--including his young wife--dead. The late Dr. Frankl's narrative is light and episodic, like afternoon conversations instead of Freudian analysis.
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Title: Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl ISBN: 0671023373 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl ISBN: 0738203548 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Doctor and the Soul : From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy by Viktor E. Frankl ISBN: 0394743172 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 October, 1986 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Unheard Cry for Meaning : Psychotherapy and Humanism by Viktor Emil Frankl ISBN: 0671247360 Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Paper) Pub. Date: 27 March, 1979 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: When Life Calls Out to Us : The Love and Lifework of Viktor and Elly Frankl by Jr. Haddon Klingberg ISBN: 0385500378 Publisher: Image Books Pub. Date: 19 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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