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Man's Search for Meaning: Gift Edition Kindle Edition

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

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The bestselling Holocaust memoir about finding purpose and strength in times of despair—selected as a Library of Congress “10 Most Influential Books in America”

This stunning gift edition of “one of the great books of our time” (Harold S. Kushner) features new photos, end papers, and Frankl’s never-before-published speeches and letters.

Hailed as “an enduring work of survival literature” by the New York Times, Viktor Frankl’s account of his time in the Nazi concentration camps—and his insights into our ability to find meaning despite great adversity—has offered solace and guidance to generations of readers since it was first published in 1946. This stunning hardcover gift edition features previously unpublished material—including letters, speeches, essays, and an 8-page photo insert—that reveal Frankl’s enduring lessons on perseverance and strength in even greater depth.

At the heart of Frankl’s theory of logotherapy (from the Greek word for “meaning”) is a conviction that the primary human drive is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but rather the discovery and pursuit of what the individual finds meaningful. Today, as new generations face new challenges and an ever more complex and uncertain world, Frankl’s classic work continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living, in spite of all obstacles.

With more than 16 million copies sold in over 50 languages, this timeless masterpiece is “one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought” (Carl Rogers) and offers inspiration for coping with suffering and finding your purpose.

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One of the ten most influential books in America. —Library of Congress/Book-of-the-Month Club "Survey of Lifetime Readers"

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

"[Man's Search for Meaning] might well be prescribed for everyone who would understand our time." —Journal of Individual Psychology

"An inspiring document of an amazing man who was able to garner some good from an experience so abysmally bad… Highly recommended." —Library Journal

“This is a book I try to read every couple of years. It’s one of the most inspirational books ever written. What is the meaning of life? What do you have when you think you have nothing? Amazing and heartbreaking stories. This is a book that should be in everyone’s library.”
—Jimmy Fallon

“This is a book I reread a lot . . . it gives me hope . . . it gives me a sense of strength.”
—Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNN
"Viktor Frankl's timeless formula for survival. One of the classic psychiatric texts of our time, Man's Search for Meaning is a meditation on the irreducible gift of one's own counsel in the face of great suffering, as well as a reminder of the responsibility each of us owes in valuing the community of our humanity. There are few wiser, kinder, or more comforting challenges than Frankl's." —Patricia J. Williams, author of Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race

"Dr. Frankl's words have a profoundly honest ring, for they rest on experiences too deep for deception… A gem of a dramatic narrative, focused upon the deepest of human problems." —Gordon W. Allport, from the Preface

"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)

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Born in Vienna in 1905, Viktor E. Frankl earned an MD and a PhD from the University of Vienna. He published more than thirty books on theoretical and clinical psychology and served as a visiting professor and lecturer at Harvard, Stanford, and elsewhere. Frankl died in 1997.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B014NW88S6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beacon Press; Gift edition (October 6, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 6, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3101 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 188 pages

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Linda Scott

Life Changing

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2024

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An amazing book and study of evil and survival. Dr. Frankl shares the intimate details of the concentration camps of World War II and gives a new way of thinking and recovery in our own suffering, depression and misery. Dr. Frankl's book has given me a new sense of direction.

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Essential to read this again. It is very inspirational during these challenging times.

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2024

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Having been through the most excruciating times as a survivor of the Holocaust, Frankl needed to know how some held on to life while others gave up. He developed Logotherapy which helps the client craft a meaningful present and future, key to living a full life.

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2024

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Take a read, be patient when reading and I promise your outlook will change and you’d have a deeper understanding of life. One of my all time favorites.

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Luis Felipe Sáenz

One’s relation to the future is the key for meaning. For this idea alone the book is a must read.

Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2020

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I was not aware of the existence of this classic, but after listening to CNN’s anchor Anderson Cooper recommending it to gain perspective during the 2020 pandemic, I couldn’t help myself and bought a copy with rare pictures and additional speeches by Viktor Frankl.

The book has two parts and they complement each other well. The first part evolves around Frank’s experience during the Holocaust. During his studies of Logotherapy – the area that seeks to understand the meaning of life in relation to the future – Viktor Frankl was sent to a concentration camp with a manuscript of his book. This manuscript was lost and he had to start the project from scratch. However, the Holocaust provided him with a fertile ground to test for himself one of his most provocative hypothesis: A life does have meaning independent of the circumstances, as long as one chooses to focus on a future worth pursuing. The choice of attitude during difficult circumstances is the ultimate freedom that we as humans are endowed. The relation that we have with the future is one of the critical characteristics that define ourselves as humans. Even Jesus had to emphasize that a life worth living goes beyond the daily bread.

The description of the concentration camps is chilling but necessary to understand the depths of Frankl’s experience. For instance, he describes in detail how the mind collapses during hunger and that the only prevalent thought is the desire for food. Even sexual desire disappears. Moreover, I found fascinating Frankl’s recollections on how the Holocaust helped him to encounter a spiritual life without diminishing the horror of the experience. That’s the point: One can find meaning in any situation.

It is deeply shocking to read that Victor Frankl had to promise himself not to commit suicide, but to put that thought aside and move on with the task of surviving. This promise relied heavily on the fact that surviving was worthwhile because keeping oneself alive is the bridge to fulfill a future goal, whether it is to see one’s family one more time or finishing a manuscript. Victor shows how once that future motivation is lost the survival instinct disappears and most people succumbed to the circumstances.

The second part of the book is more scholarly, as it attempts to describe the key tenants of the Logotherapy. It focuses on the relation that a person has with their goals and aspirations in a systematic way and how only they can fulfill these aspirations to create meaning to their life. Frankl argues that one can find meaning in love, work, and suffering, but not suffering itself but into how one responds to suffering. Logotherapy aims to cure the soul by leading it to find meaning. This part of the book is beautiful, as Frankl brings his experience in Auschwitz to work on behalf of his patients, his students, and ultimately ourselves, his readers.

After reading this book, I find very appealing the idea of success as a vain construct, and more importantly, the notion that success – whatever that means – should not be aimed.
If anything, it is a side-effect of the pursuit of a greater cause. Similar to happiness, it is important to let it happen without finding it. I also felt ashamed on how frugal my life has become after more than a few good strikes of luck that I needed a pandemic and this kind of reading experience to realize that the notion of one’s potential is vain as well. The idea of humans endowed with a particular potential really assumes that we are not in control of our destiny, as this “potential” is akin to a gravitational force that will work on your behalf if only one just steps out of the way and allows it to work. That is shallow and dangerous as it brings depression as the only response to failure, as if failing is not a critical part of the process of finding meaning in what one does.

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He lost everything including his loved ones and I was amaze that

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2017

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This book is for anyone who want to alleviate the hardships and difficulties that he or she is undergoing or had already underwent through it.

This book provides us with the harrowing tales of Dr. Victor Frankl and other victims of the holocaust. He told us of the appalling life in the Nazi concentration camps where they were treated harshly and that word is even an understatement to describe their ordeal. They were stripped of everything: their wealth, identity and their very own dignity. However, according to Frankl, one can be stripped of everything but there is one thing that they cannot be stripped of, and that is the freedom to choose how we react to our sufferings. Hence, he introduces to us Logotherapy where as opposed to other philosophers’ perception on handling sufferings, Frankl uses the will to meaning. Finding meaning to this life and finding meaning to even our sufferings. Because once we find its meaning it ceases to be a suffering as we know its purpose already.

I was prompted to read this book because it was mentioned in the book “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey in the chapter of his book ‘Proactive.’ When I searched it on Goodreads, I was inclined to read it because it tells the story of one doctor who specialises in psychology who was a victim of the holocaust. He lost everything including his loved ones and I was amaze that, according to the book’s description, he had a method of coping up even the pain that is as excruciating as that.

The book enlightens me on many things and most importantly it reinforces the things that I learned on my previous readings that were related to the subject and genre of this book. If there was one thing that I don’t like about it, it is the medical jargons that were used in it, because I find it difficult to comprehend some of the chapters due to it. But that is only light compared to the enlightenment given by this book.

This is a must for everyone. Especially those who have lost the meaning and purpose to life and those who are currently being tested with difficulties because you can relate a lot of things to what Dr. Frankl had went through. I bet what we are undergoing right now is a microcosm to what he had experienced during the holocaust.

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Among My best Books Ever --

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2023

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This book is in a class of its own. This is a book I usually recommend to my friends. I believe that after reading this book, and a few others--- I did not find a self-help book to match this one. The story is sad, but the message is strong. Man can find meaning. And Victor Frankl's book is the Foundational book for all writing on The Search for meaning.

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Danniel Tung

Inspiring story

Reviewed in Brazil on November 2, 2023

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The book shows us we are more powerful than we believe we are

Andre Fortier

Great book

Reviewed in Canada on April 9, 2023

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I really enjoyed reading it

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Interesting book from real experience

Reviewed in Germany on July 16, 2023

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Interesting book and it makes you think.

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This one is for keeps

Reviewed in India on August 20, 2019

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Thoughtful, insightful, wise. I loved it.

Izsak Rachel

Man's search for meaning

Reviewed in France on February 27, 2017

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Tout y est passionnant et source d'inspiration sur la manière de choisir comment vivre sa vie, et d'accompagner ceux qui cherchent un sens à leur vie. Au coeur de l'humain et cela nous permet de nous réveiller à la vie.

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