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Man's Search for Meaning is the chilling yet inspirational story of Viktor Frankl's struggle to hold on to hope during the unspeakable horrors of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps. 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 those he treated in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot
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"El Hombre en Busca de Sentido" es una poderosa y conmovedora obra escrita por Viktor E. Frankl, un sobreviviente del Holocausto y un psiquiatra notable. El libro narra las experiencias de Frankl en los campos de concentración nazis durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y explora profundamente la cuestión fundamental de encontrar significado en medio del sufrimiento y la adversidad.
La obra se presenta en dos partes. En la primera, Frankl relata sus...
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Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning sold over 10 million copies and was translated into over 30 languages and was deemed by a survey of the Library of Congress one of "the ten most influential books in America". This volume introduces and presents translations of a number of important but less well-known writings by Viktor Frankl, translated from the original German, in which he forthrightly relates psychology to religious concepts. These cast a strong,...
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Vom Autor des Bestsellers "... trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen" Viktor E. Frankl.
"Wer ein Warum zu leben hat, erträgt fast jedes Wie" — nach diesem Motto erforschte Viktor Frankl, wie Sinnerfüllung auch angesichts schwerer Schicksalsschläge möglich ist und Menschen in die Lage versetzt, in Krisenzeiten seelisch heil zu bleiben.
Viktor Frankl war ein österreichischer Neurologe und Psychiater. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs verbrachte er drei...
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Viktor Frankl is known to millions of listeners as a psychotherapist who has transcended his field in his search for answers to the ultimate questions of life, death, and suffering. His smash bestseller Man's Search for Meaning sold over nine million copies worldwide. These nine essays comprise a kind of sequel to the author's foundation work of "logotherapy" Man's Search for Meaning, with a focus on a person's spiritual rather than existential striving....
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Born in 1905 in the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, Viktor Frankl was a witness to the great political, philosophical, and scientific upheavals of the twentieth century. In these stirring recollections, Frankl describes how as a young doctor of neurology in prewar Vienna his disagreements with Freud and Adler led to the development of "the third Viennese School of Psychotherapy," known as logotherapy; recounts his harrowing trials...
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Der weltberühmte Arzt und Psychologe hatte eine unerschütterlich optimistische Sicht auf den Menschen. Egal welche Umstände, Erbanlagen oder äußeren Einflüsse wir vorfinden: Das Wesentliche des Menschen ist seine Freiheit, und Sinn und Verantwortung, wie wir mit unserem Leben umgehen, liegen in unserer Hand. Frankls Nachdenken über die Folgen unserer Freiheit sind hoch aktuell: Wie sehr nehmen wir Einfluss auf die eigene Lebensgestaltung? Ergreifen...
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Elf Monate nach seiner Befreiung aus dem Konzentrationslager hielt Viktor E. Frankl im März 1946 eine Reihe von Vorträgen an der Volkshochschule des Wiener Arbeiterbezirks Ottakring. Der Psychologe, der später weltberühmt werden sollte, erklärte seine zentralen Gedanken zu Lebenssinn und Resilienz. Ausgehend von seiner eigenen Maxime "Lebe so, als ob du zum zweiten Male lebtest", entfaltet Frankl seine Grundüberzeugung, dass Menschsein in jeder...
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El doctor Frankl, psiquiatra y escritor, suele preguntar a sus pacientes aquejados de múltiples padecimientos: ¿Por qué no se suicida usted? Y muchas veces, de las respuestas extrae una orientación para la psicoterapia a aplicar: a éste, lo que le ata a la vida son los hijos; al otro, un talento, una habilidad sin explotar; a un tercero, quizás, sólo unos cuantos recuerdos que merece la pena rescatar del olvido. Tejer estas tenues hebras de...
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"Eleven months after his liberation from Auschwitz, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna, published here for the first time. The psychologist, who was to become world famous, explained his central thoughts on meaning, resilience and the importance of embracing life even in the face of great adversity"--
Frankl's seminal work was in manuscript form when he was arrested and deported to Auschwitz in 1942. During his imprisonment,...
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Viktor Frankl (Viena, 1905-1997), psiquiatra de fama mundial, creó una psicología abierta a la trascendencia que hoy cuenta con numerosos seguidores en los cinco continentes. Su método de curación, llamado logoterapia, ha dado sentido a muchas vidas, y cada día crece el interés por las aplicaciones prácticas de sus ideas.
Su libro más famoso es El hombre en busca de sentido, que relata su experiencia en los campos de concentración nazis,...
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World-renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning is one of the most important books of modern times. Frankl's personal story of finding a reason to live in Nazi concentration camps has inspired millions. In Prisoners of Our Thoughts, Dr. Alex Pattakos-whom Frankl urged to write this book-elaborates seven "core principles" based on Frankl's philosophy and demonstrates how they can help us find meaning in our everyday lives and work...
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Prisoners of Our Thoughts
Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded
World-renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning was named by the Library of Congress as one of the ten most influential books of the 20th century. Frankl's story of finding a reason to live in the most horrible circumstance imaginable-Nazi concentration camps-continues to inspire millions. Urged by...
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The year 2020 brought about a totally unprecedented experience for humanity: a worldwide pandemic. Life as we knew it changed almost instantly. We found ourselves quarantining at home, wearing masks in public, and using large amounts of hand sanitizer and disinfectant. As the months dragged on and the search for a COVID-19 vaccine continued, social distancing began to feel like solitary confinement, the rising death toll from the virus made the future...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 The meaning and value of human life has become more difficult to speak about since the war. We must ask ourselves: Can we still use these words today. Has not the very meaning of these words become questionable.
#2 We cannot move toward a spiritual reconstruction while maintaining this type of fatalism. We must overcome it. We cannot blindly trust in progress...
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Summary of Viktor E. Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning is a memoir of Frankl's imprisonment in concentration camps during World War II, and a brief description of the principles of logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that he founded.
Frankl and his family were imprisoned in concentration camps during the war. Frankl was held in several camps before he was liberated from the last in 1945. During his time in the camps, Frankl witnessed the extreme...
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Meaningis a biography in play form. Using many of his own words, the play focuses on key moments in Frankl's life: it explores his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, his development of Logotherapy and his insights into the human condition. His book "Man's Search for Meaning" has influenced millions of people worldwide.
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