Paperback, 189 pages
English language
Published Aug. 6, 1984 by Simon & Schuster.
Few books in recent decades have had the continuing impact of Dr Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning—the classic best seller now considered to be one of the most important contributions to psychiatry since Freud. Frankl gives a moving account of his life amid the horrors of the Nazi death camps, chronicling the harrowing experience that led to his discovery of his theory of logotherapy. A profound revelation born out of his years as a prisoner in Auschwitz & other concentration camps, logotherapy is a modern & positive approach to the mentally or spiritually disturbed personality. Stressing the freedom to transcend suffering & find a meaning to life regardless of circumstances, it's a theory which, since its conception, has exercised a tremendous influence upon the entire field of psychiatry & psychology.
Here, Frankl not only describes the genesis & development of logotherapy but also explains its basic concepts, …
Few books in recent decades have had the continuing impact of Dr Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning—the classic best seller now considered to be one of the most important contributions to psychiatry since Freud. Frankl gives a moving account of his life amid the horrors of the Nazi death camps, chronicling the harrowing experience that led to his discovery of his theory of logotherapy. A profound revelation born out of his years as a prisoner in Auschwitz & other concentration camps, logotherapy is a modern & positive approach to the mentally or spiritually disturbed personality. Stressing the freedom to transcend suffering & find a meaning to life regardless of circumstances, it's a theory which, since its conception, has exercised a tremendous influence upon the entire field of psychiatry & psychology.
Here, Frankl not only describes the genesis & development of logotherapy but also explains its basic concepts, & in this revised enlarged edition, has included a new chapter, entitled "The Case for a Tragic Optimism," in which he updates theoretical conclusions of the book. The result is an invaluable work by one of the world's preeminent psychiatrists. (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 …
