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Man's Search for Meaning Paperback – June 1, 2006

by Viktor E. Frankl (Author), William J. Winslade (Afterword), Harold S. Kushner (Foreword)

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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. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, 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. Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos ("meaning")-holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.

At the time of Frankl's death in 1997, Man's Search for Meaning had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. A 1991 reader survey for the Library of Congress that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America.

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One of the great books of our time. —Harold S. Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People

"One of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years."—Carl R. Rogers (1959)

"An enduring work of survival literature." —New York Times

"An accessible edition of the enduring classic. The spiritual account of the Holocaust and the description of logotherapy meets generations' need for hope."—Donna O. Dziedzic (PLA) AAUP Best of the Best Program

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Viktor E. Frankl was professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School until his death in 1997. His twenty-nine books have been translated into twenty-one languages. During World War II, he spent three years in Auschwitz, Dachau, and other concentration camps.

Harold S. Kushner is rabbi emeritus at Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, and the author of bestselling books including When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Living a Life That Matters, and When All You’ve Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough.

William J. Winslade is a philosopher, lawyer, and psychoanalyst who teaches psychiatry, medical ethics, and medical jurisprudence at the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston.

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Paperback: 184 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press; 1 edition (June 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780807014295
ISBN-13: 978-0807014295
ASIN: 080701429X
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- #2 in Holocaust Biographies
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The deepest insights in the most simple words.

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2016

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If you're in pain, read this book. If you're scared, read this book. If you are lost, read this book. If you are happy, read this book. If you have time, read this book. If you don't have time, read this book. Read this book, read this book.

"We who lived in the 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."

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Worth reading especially in today's world

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2018

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When I first started reading Man's Search.... last week I was repulsed by the descriptions of the concentration camp experiences. How could humans be like that? Even though of course we have known about them for 70 years now, it is horrible to read about them. My temptation was to put the book aside, I told someone it was "depressing." But how glad I am that I persevered (because it was our Book Club choice this month.) Ultimately, this book is a hopeful paen to humankind's ability to rise above all suffering, to find our own individual meaning to our existence and in that way make sense of why we are in the world and why we should continue in it, doing our very best. This book transcends religion even as I recognize so much of what Frankl writes in my own religious beliefs.
Truly a must read for people as soon as they are old enough to understand it--perhaps mid teenage years.

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Steven J. O'malley

A classic

Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2016

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I read this in college and ordered again to read some 40 years later. Frankl relates the severe conditions in the concentration camp. Those without any purpose seemed to perish. Those that had developed purpose and meaning to the harsh conditions got out of bed every morning to face another unbearable day. this book is a classic. anything less than 5 stars would be a reflection on me.

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I am so glad I finally read it

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2017

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For some reason, I put off reading this book for many years. I had read excerpts that made me want to read it, but getting the book and sitting down to read it just seemed to not fit into my plans. I am so glad I finally read it. For about twenty years, I read many stories about World War Two. I wanted to know why no one helped the Jews. The most gratifying part of the reading was to find that there were many people that endangered their own lives and the lives of their families in order to hide Jews from the Germans. So, to follow a Jew into the concentration camps and read his observations was enlightening. Some survived the camps while others died. They all ate the same food, suffered the same diseases, performed the same work, and suffered the freezing temperatures. Why did some survive? That is what Victor Frankl wanted to know and with close observation, he saw the pattern that gave meaning to life and helped some survive while others gave up and died. His ideas are applicable to modern day problems as well as his methods.

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Angela Risner The Sassy Orange

Amazing story, well-written, another life-changing book

Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2013

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Viktor Frankl, an Austrian Jew, studied neurology and psychiatry with a focus on depression and suicide years before being arrested and deported by the Nazis in 1942. He defied odds by lasting three years in concentration camps. He lost his parents, brother, and his wife, who was pregnant. As doctors were in short supply in the camps, Frankl, after working as a slave laborer for some time, was able to work as a physician until his liberation.

As his work prior to his time in the concentration camps had focused on depression and the prevention of suicide, he turned his focus to his own survival story and the people with whom he interacted in the camps. Why did some survive and others perish? What gave people the will to live? What gives life meaning?

Some favorite moments:

•Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.
•Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person) and in courage during difficult times. Suffering in and of itself is meaningless; we give our suffering meaning by the way in which we respond to it.
•Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, you freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.
•The truth- that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and believe have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.
•Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
•From all this we may learn that there are two races of men in this world, but only these two - the "race" of the decent man and the "race" of the indecent man. Both are found everywhere; they penetrate into all groups of society. No group consists entirely of decent or indecent people. In this sense, no group is of "pure race" - and therefore one occasionally found a decent fellow among the camp guards.
•Now, being free, they thought they could use their freedom licentiously and ruthlessly. The only thing that had changed for them was the they were now the oppressors instead of the oppressed...Only slowly could these men be guided back to the commonplace truth that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them.
•"Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now."
•So, let us be alert - alert in a twofold sense: Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

Highly recommend.

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Must Read

Reviewed in India on June 29, 2018

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THIS BOOK REVIEW IS ONLY BASED ON MY FEELINGS DURING READING THE BOOK. IT DOES NOT INTENT TO HURT ANYONE’S FEELINGS, AND DOES NOT MEANT TO COMPARE WITH ANY OTHER REVIEWER’S FEELINGS.
Well writing a review for this kind of extraordinary book is a big audacity for me. however here I’m, trying to give some brief review of the book.

The book is basically divided into three parts, the first one describes the way the Jews prisoners were treated in the Nazi Concentration Camps and how their lifestyle was. In the second part, the author described the basics of Logotherapy, a way of treatment of the Psychotherapeutic Patients. And finally, in the third part, he described what he actually meant by Man’s Search for meaning.

Being a Jew, the author was transferred to the Auschwitz, Dachau and other concentration camps during the Nazi occupation in Austria. Here, in the first part of the book, the author described his days in those concentration camps, where is were no chance of seeing the morning sun in the next day. And this happened every day. He described the way the SS guards used to treat the prisoners, the corruption prevailed in the camps, the malnutrition, the lifestyle of the camp Jews etc. The way he described the tortures the prisoners suffered, would surely bring tears to your eyes. During his description, he also pointed out the psychological condition of the other comrades in those camps. When most of the prisoners lost all hope of his life, some of them still kept the faith, that good days were coming.

In the second part, the author basically described the Logotherapy Techniques. And the most interesting part of the book is the third part. Here the author describes “Man’s search for meaning”. We, the human beings on this planet are living for a purpose. Until & unless we can’t find the purpose of our life, there is no reason for us to be here alive. Most of the prisoners in the camps lost all of their hopes and then died because they lost their purpose, as per the author. It is a must-read book for all I think.

The book also consists of few life-changing quotes which I liked in the book and would like to share:

1. For success, like happiness, can’t be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself.

2. There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose.

3. Suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great of little. Therefore the ‘size’ of human suffering is absolutely relative.

4. No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

5. The human being is completely and unavoidably influenced by his surroundings.

6. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life can’t be completed

7. Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

8. There is no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

9. A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ” how”.

10. The body has fewer inhibitions than the mind.

11. No one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them.

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Diksha Suman (@beingsheblog)

The most beautiful book I have ever read.

Reviewed in India on July 5, 2018

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The book says, ‘The Classic tribute to hope from Holocaust’. And Sir Frankl was a “Holocaust survivor".

This book has two parts:
1.Experiences in a Concentration Camp.
2.Logotherapy in a Nutshell

The second part is so impactful and unique that you will re-read this book. The first part mainly is the autobiographical account of Sir, Frankl and the best part is both parts mutually support their credibility.
The way he has poured all the pain in this book is not so easy and that too after experiencing it, I was literally shocked because firstly, I was unaware of the term “Holocaust”, maybe I have read before somewhere in History but I was unaware while reading and Secondly, I had never come across something like this.

He has talked about everything related to life in this book and you know what the best part is even after so much pain, I felt sad but I wasn’t demotivated, I could relate it and with each page-turning, what I found was ‘I am into the book’, suffering all this but I wasn’t tackling all the worst situation in my life as he did.
Suddenly I started understanding that what life is? what suffering is? and what surviving is? and where am I lacking?

So, in another way, I discovered the answer to three most important questions which I wanted to be answered since maturity.

I came across a new word “Logotherapy” and I loved that section so much that I will re-read this book.
In one line, I learned a lot from this book, which I can further practice to live a peaceful and beautiful life ahead. And this what makes this book worth reading.

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Sean E. Nash

Wisdom from the furnace of affliction

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 2, 2017

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Very moving book, in a kind of Dith Pran way... he is clearly mentally resilient and robust to find a way of dealing with the harsh conditions of a slaughter camp called Auschwitz, without being dehumanised. Two quotes really moved me " if you can understand the why in your suffering, you can find the how in your suffering". And after being released in 1945, although depersonalised by the awful conditions there, 3 weeks later he was able to say" I give thanks to God who has led me to a spacious place".. He reluctantly agreed to write a script which as we know became this book.
Anyone who feels their life has no meaning or purpose, as our society has become increasingly Dickensian in the last 10 years, will find hope, as I did, to motivate myself to lead a fuller life, in spite of some of life's setbacks. I feel a winner, now, and am grateful for a special mentor who gave me her copy to learn wisdom.... I bought my own copy, as above to refer to it in times of stress. Other than that, it is a great read, which casts an objective eye on a period of history, some would rather forget.

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Z. M. Snarey

A wonderful book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 10, 2018

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This is wonderful book, inspiring and wise. My uncle was taken by the Nazis and was almost dead due to typhus when the camp at Dachau was liberated. He was discovered in a heap of bodies by a doctor who noticed a flicker of his eyelids. He was taken to hospital in Budapest and survived until 1967. This book gave me an insight into what he must have suffered. He never complained was always cheerful and full of mischief. The second half of the book about logotherapy is also very interesting and worth reading.

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Caitlin Cockcroft

Touching on an understanding of what is left when you strip a person to their bones

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 13, 2018

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I knew that this book would be affecting and impactful, but I hadn’t actually realised how. I thought it would be a traumatic read, overly empathic response, too immersed in the emotive horrors.

But actually it’s a detached prose (insofar as a scientist who lives his unchosen experiment can write) which signifies the importance of finding meaning in life.

It’s like a really visual, visceral reminder that we can survive anything if we choose to. If we have our attitude reframed or we do it ourselves. If we see purpose or meaning in suffering, we cannot die.

Quite a profound read that gave rise to new thinkings and questionings in my head, and which I intend to follow for my own personal development and flourishing but also as a path to teach others.

Thank you, for going through it, sharing it, understanding it.

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When we think all is lost, No, our freedom to Choose still remains.

Reviewed in India on October 14, 2017

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I came across this book from a brief mentioning of it in the book The Attitude is Everything by Jeff Keller. I read it in kindle. Even though one may have an idea how the life a prisoner would be in a Concentration camp, shivers ran through my spine as I read and I was deeply moved for those prisoners who were subjected to extreme tortures.

I quote some of the lines from the author which can show the gravity of their sufferings, “It is very difficult for an outsider to grasp how very little value was placed on human life in camp………….Those who have not gone through a similar experience can hardly conceive the soul-destroying mental conflict and clashes of will power which a famished man experiences…………Reality dimmed, and all efforts and all emotions were centered on one task: preserving one’s own life and that of the other fellow………..Step by step we had to become accustomed to a terrible and immense horror…………The most depressing influence of all was that a prisoner could not know how long his term of imprisonment would be. He had been given no date for his release……….Actually a prison term was not only uncertain but unlimited……….It was impossible to foresee whether or when, if at all, this form of existence would end……….The suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little.”

The mind set which kept the author alive is better read in his own words. He says, “In spite of all the enforced physical and mental primitiveness of the life in a concentration camp, it was possible for spiritual life to deepen………..What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life……..it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us…..we could say that most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did majority of prisoners.”

For outsiders, it’s very easy to talk about Optimism while sitting in a comfortable couch, with a roof on top, food on table, surrounded by loved ones with a secured life. It’s easy to talk when life favorably looks upon us and the weather is bright.

But the Optimism carries weight when it comes from the mouth of a person who had come out alive from a virtual hell. It is indeed an achievement to hold on to dear life with hope when all the odds were stacked against him, when he never knew that he will live to see freedom. When such a person speaks of what kept him alive and kicking that he “beat the odds” and came out victorious, it is a lesson for all of us.

I have no hesitation in giving 5 stars

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Existentialism's positive messenger.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 6, 2016

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This was a surprisingly readable book on the holocaust by an inmate of several of the camps. It describes the psychology of survival in the camps. Viktor Frankl became an important psychotherapist in which he implements ideas he developed while in the concentration camp. The book is divided into two parts: part 1 describing what happened to him from 1st impressions until release; the 2nd part describes his implementation of his psychotherapy with different individuals. The book is moving example of what existentialist thought can actually be for in real life, what good it can do, how it can help people. He tells the story of his experience and how you can maintain your inner freedom and your human identity in the face of a situation that is designed to completely destroy and demolish all human dignity. It’s almost impossible to do, and he doesn’t say “This is the recipe for how I did it” — he just explores the ways in which fragments of purpose and of meaning in human life kept him going. He also writes about his experience after the end of the war, when he started to write about psychology and existentialist psychology, which he was one of the founders of. That was equally difficult, finding meaning in a world after all meaning has been destroyed, and all human dignity has been dismantled. In dealing with patients who present with various kinds of depression or a sense of meaninglessness, Frankl concludes that it’s all about looking at the ways in which people construct meaning and purpose in their lives. Again, this reverses the usual way of understanding human existence. We are not just sets of symptoms and conditions. We are thrown into a situation — which might be an absolutely unendurable, impossible situation — but we always have the freedom to make of it what we will, according to our own choices, to impose our own meaning on it.

It’s not just a matter of enduring or retreating into an inner realm in which you’re free. In fact, it’s not really about the inner realm at all, because the way you find meaning is not within, but through a purpose in the world, something that’s outside you, something that is greater than you. It could be by creating something, and it could be — and very often is — connections to other human beings, whether it’s comrades, friends, family or the people you come up against in life. And if all else fails — as it tended to in the concentration camps — and all the usual sources of meaning fall apart, there is always the chance of finding a meaning in the suffering itself. This is something that’s very hard to talk about in the abstract, but that was the conclusion that he came to.

It’s interesting how optimistic Viktor Frankl’s philosophy is. Existentialism is often characterised as a rather morbid philosophy, dwelling on. That view of existentialism as “Life is terrible and we just have to resign ourselves to it” is a real misrepresentation. Sartre would have said, “No, we can change the circumstances of our lives.” He believed we could do it through revolution, through Marxism, through politics — and potentially through ethics as well, though that is something he never finished working out completely. With Viktor Frankl there’s a sense that we need this philosophy to help us to live. Existentialist philosophy doesn’t bring despair and angst into our lives, it gives us a way of making sense, it’s a way of discovering our own inner freedom. There’s a lot more that’s positive in existentialism than it’s ever given credit for, because it really is about how you live your life, and how you exist, given what you’re presented with. angst and anguish and the difficulty of making choices. It’s a nice foil to that caricature of existentialism. It avoids the pitfalls of Colin Wilson's evangelical approach.

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Myshkin

A book for everyone

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 24, 2017

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Really - every one should read this book. Frankl avoids moralising and never tries to garner sympathy for himself or for Jews. Instead he just lays out the lived reality of the tragedy and what how it led him to a new approach to psychotherapy that - rather uniquely - does not require figuring out the original cause of a person's upset.

It won't take you long to read - it's quite thin. Just go do it.

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Mindblowing lecture... Appeal to humanity

Reviewed in Germany on January 13, 2019

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Victor Frankl tells us about his story. A story full of suffering and an enormous amount of deepness.
He gives so much reason to ponder about one's own life with this reading, It really forced me to rethink my life.

I mean he's gone through hell and we are complaining about so many things in life that are ridiculous. We are so focused on our own ego and always wondering why the f*** nothing happens that makes us happy.

Always running after the next big thing, or the next opportunity instead of just realizing how awesome everything is. We aren't in danger we don't have to fear the freaking gas chambers or any of that.

We just have to remember that the true happiness comes from nobody else but us. It's not even deep inside, we just burried it with our so called problems and our misleading expectations.

Life is not a good nor a bad thing, I think it's a challenge, WE MAKE IT GOOD or we stay in our comfort zone and hope for the best.

Well it's hard but you either go out and do something about it or you don't but then you shouldn't complain. Most of us will sadly never realize that.

Thank you for reading this, you're a champion and don't you ever forget that!

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A thought provoking book but a wonderful read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 5, 2019

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I must admit that the start of the book is heavy going. Not because of the writing, but because of the content. Frankl opens your eyes to a dehumanizing experience and provides an insight into his thoughts and processes that led onto his famous logo therapy. As a psychologist I am not entirely convinced of all his ideas but they most certainly inform much of my ethos in relation to human existence. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in human nature and our desire to find meaning in this world.

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Viktor Frankl writes in such a candid way about his ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 7, 2015

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Viktor Frankl writes in such a candid way about his experiences of being in concentration camps during the Holocaust. The particular significance of this book is in respect of this observations on the human condition during the most horrendous of circumstances. He introduces us to the notion that finding meaning can be found in any place. Folliwing his experience of being in the camps he then returned to his profession of being a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist and he developed logotherapy which focues on helping people to find the purpose and meaning of their own

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mahesh k adewar

Those who has "why" In there life can bear any" How".

Reviewed in India on June 17, 2019

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Outstanding Book! Everyone should read.
This book gives many insight full thoughts that generally we forget in our daily lives.
This book has great massage for life for those people who are in dispare Or prone to dispare.

One of the great lines I loved is ' you cannot control what's happens with you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about it. '

It will change the way you look at life.
This is not about what happed in concentration camp per day it's more about the lessons that need to be drawn from it!

All people of all age group must read it.
I recommend this book to all of the people who are in search for motto in life....
Best wishes..

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Fascinating and inspiring book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 25, 2018

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I first studied this book while studying for a Diploma in Humanities back in the 1990’s & having become paralyzed I needed inspiration to keep on fighting and this book came to mind. It has made me realise I had little to complain about and that logo therapy was perfect. This man went through hell and yet still is an inspiration - he has made me see I can still have to make my own contribution to the world no matter how small. I now work as a Designer and love my work. As he overcame the trauma he’d seen and experienced so I use my much smaller traumatic experience to push me on to greater, better things.

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Elisabeth Brookes

A lot of questions unanswered

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 30, 2019

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A first sight this seems to be an inspiring book however saying that giving meaning to life is the key to good mental health is too superficial. Which meaning? there is no reference to ethics. One could say that the Nazis gave meaning to their lives however the price for a huge number of people was extremely high so linking this to ethics and the good of society is crucial. Furthermore after looking into the biography of the author there seems to be some discrepancies between his account of his time in concentration camps and the written records which remain unexplained and this casts doubts over the honesty and aim of this book.

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Emmie

Thought provoking

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 15, 2018

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This book touches the interest of fellow psychotherapists such as myself, and non psychotherapists alike I would assert. The first half of the book is devoted to the suffering and unexpected behaviors of those within the concentration camps of Auschwitz and how they either lost the purpose to live or found meaning in life such as it was, in order to survive. The second half is about LogoTherapy and how the author ( a survivor of no less than four concentration camps himself) embraces suffering as a means of finding true meaning and value in life rather than a tragedy that breaks one beyond the point of meaningfulness. It is within the school of Existentialism and is one of the most touching and informative books I’ve read in a long time.

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