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Title: Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy by Victor E. Frankl ISBN: 0-8070-1426-5 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.74 (171 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The triumph of the human spirit!
Comment: "He who has a 'why' to live for can bear with almost any 'how'." (Friedrich Nietszche)
How many of us would give up when faced with insurmountable odds? Dr. Viktor Frankl endured and survived his incarceration at the Nazi concentration camps. He lived on to establish logotherapy, a new approach to psychotherapy.
His dehumanizing ordeal is a humbling account of the triumph of the human spirit when faced with adversity. It is difficult to read each chapter without being moved by the inhumanity that surrounded him and his fellow prisoners. Dr. Frankl searched for and found the meaning for his existence, (the 'why'), notwithstanding the circumstances, (the 'how'), around him.
This book is more than a personal account of a death camp survivor. It is a testimony to man's enduring will to survive and an inspiration for anyone seeking a reason for living.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Classic Work in Psychology
Comment: Viktor Frankl was trained a psychiatrist before becoming imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps for three years in World War II. In the first part of Man's Search for Meaning, Experiences in a Concentration Camp, Frankl engrosses the reader the feelings and general experience of the average concentration camp prisoner. He does not focus on the horrific details of the camps, but rather, he poignantly expresses the psychological state produced by these experiences. The second part of the book, Logotherapy in a Nutshell, is a brief overview of the system of psychology that Frankl founded. The third part of the book, The Case for a Tragic Optimism, was added to the 1984 edition and is based off one of Frankl's 1983 lectures. In it, Frankl expounds logotherapy a little further. This work has won its place in history. In conjunction with being one of the main texts in the field of logotherapy, its gripping description on the concentration camps makes it not only compelling but also highly informative. This is a must read for anyone who has ever put thought into psychology, spirituality, or the meaning of life. Man's Search for Meaning is well written and not difficult to read. This short work will have an impact on anyone who reads it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Finding Meaning in Life
Comment: Every now and then, I notice that a book is frequently mentioned in conversations or referenced in other works. Once I have made that mental connection, I am compelled to discover why that book has influenced so many different people. Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" is one of those influential books, and now I know why -- it is one of the best, thought-provoking, and potentially life-changing books I have ever read.
Frankl was a Holocaust survivor who used his concentration camp experiences as a laboratory to study the nature and character of man. Frankl went on to become a world-renowned psychiatrist whose thoughts developed a new psychotherapy called logotherapy.
Frankl believed man's main concern in life is in fulfilling a meaning that is unique only to him, that each life has its own specific meaning, and that everyone is responsible for his own life and existence.
The book was broken down into two complementary chapters, and a postscript (revised edition). In the first chapter, "Experiences in a Concentration Camp," Frankl shared his thoughts and observations as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps. The descriptions of his life and the lives and actions of his fellow prisoners was authentic, yet not as overly graphic as other Holocaust accounts I have read. In the second chapter, "Logotherapy in a Nutshell," Frankl gave a scholarly explanation of logotherapy. While some of the more academic terms and concepts were difficult to understand at first and required me to re-read some sections, he gave sufficient examples that helped me to get his main points.
The postscript was titled, "The Case for a Tragic Optimism," and was based on a lecture Frankl gave in 1983. Frankl defined "tragic optimism" as "...an optimism in the face of tragedy and in view of the human potential which at its best always allows for: (1) turning suffering into a human achievement and accomplishment; (2) deriving from guilt the opportunity to change oneself for the better; and (3) deriving from life's transitoriness an incentive to take responsible action." The postscript helped me to better understand some of the more difficult connections between the first two chapters.
Throughout this book, I found many spiritual and thought-provoking quotes and passages that made reading it a very personal and reflective experience for me:
"He who has a 'why' to live can bear with almost any 'how.'" Friedrich Nietzsche
"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
"Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual."
"...the commonplace truth that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them."
"Man is 'not' fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment."
"Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now."
"In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured."
I consider my life to be a constant work-in-progress, so this book is on my short list of books that I plan to read again and again to help me keep my life focused and meaningful.
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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: Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy by Viktor Emil Frankl, Viktor E. Frank ISBN: 0452010349 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: October, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Recollections: An Autobiography by Viktor E. Frankl, Joseph Fabry, Judith Fabry ISBN: 0738203556 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: Viktor Frankl's Contribution to Spirituality and Aging by Melvin Kimble ISBN: 0789011565 Publisher: Haworth Press Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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