Paperback, 165 pages
English language
Published Aug. 6, 2007 by Beacon Press.
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. At the heart of his theory, known as logotherapy, is a conviction that the primary human drive is not pleasure but the pursuit of what we find meaningful. Man's Search for Meaning has become one of the most influential books in America; it continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living. (back cover)
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. At the heart of his theory, known as logotherapy, is a conviction that the primary human drive is not pleasure but the pursuit of what we find meaningful. Man's Search for Meaning has become one of the most influential books in America; it continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living. (back cover)
Combinando vivencias con análisis médico, este libro deja huella en todo aquel que lo lea. Lecciones, una tras otra, que te maravillan y asustan al mismo tiempo, y que espero que causen las mejores reflexiones en las mentes de toda persona digna.
Viktor Frankl nos trae sus experiencias en un campo de concentración y cómo logra superar ése calvario.
Cuando uno pasa por una crisis y se enfrenta a la pérdida del sentido de vida, uno debería aferrarse a algo, ¿Qué le da sentido a tu vida? Si encuentras ése ancla a la realidad logras superar, no sin esfuerzo la adversidad. Lectura obligada para cuando estás bien y sobre todo para cuando estás mal.
La logoterapia nace de aquí y el enfrentarse a las cosas es para muchos, la vía a la recuperación.
ViktorFrankl survived the holocaust to write #MansSearchforMeaning. I don't say this lightly; Frankl cites one of the reasons he claimed not to succumb to suicide was bringing the insights he gleaned from the holocaust ,and its psychological effects, to the world outside of the Third Reich. He asks us to dispense with Freud's pleasure principle and Adam Smith's invisible hand and see the search for meaning in one's life as the motivating force of all people.
Facing the rise of authoritarianism, the endless, preventable plague, and the future throes of climate change, Frankl's insights are worth your time.
Man's Search for Meaning was one of my uncle's favorite books. I know he took inspiration from these words in his final hours:
"I once read a letter written by a young invalid, in which he told a friend that he had just found out he would not live for long, that …
