Frankl, the originator of Logotherapy, shares his experiences living in a concentration camp during World War II. He teaches the importance of creating meaning in one’s life and the application of ethics in daily choices. Frankl emphasizes the importance of reconciliation in contrast to collective guilt. He emphasizes the importance of finding meaningful responses to all forms of tragedy.

"Viktor Frankl was a psychiatrist and philosopher who survived the Holocaust and went on to found the third school of Viennese psychotherapy. This book is an intellectual biography of Frankl, describing his early immersion in Freudianism, his connection to Alfred Adler, and the development of logotherapy in the 1930s. After the Holocaust, Frankl took on a prominent public role as a survivor in postwar Austria, and in the United States as part of the humanistic psychology movement. By critically

The Meaning of Life is a lecture that was presented before a live audience in 1986, in which Frankl distinguishes his approach from that of Freud, Adler, and Maslow. Further, Frankl makes a plea for self-transcendence; that is, the "intentional" life, directed to creating future meaning. He contends that life is unconditionally meaningful, and in discussing the family, he argues that love alone allows us to grasp the uniqueness of another. Frankl offers the exquisitely simple and complex truth t

The Will to Meaning is a lecture that was delivered to a live audience in 1985. The question that underlies it is:What are the uniquely human dimensions? For Frankl, they include detachment, humor, self-transcendence, and especially, the will to meaning. In this wide-ranging lecture, Frankl distinguishes his existential perspective on the human condition from that of psychiatric giants including Freud, Adler, Maslow, and Perls. He outlines how people can find meaning in their lives through thei

In this work, a Viennese psychiatrist tells his grim experiences in a German concentration camp which led him to logotherapy, an existential method of psychiatry. This work has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 the author, a psychiatrist labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the stories

Man in Search of Meaning is a two-part lecture presented before a live audience in 1984. In the first segment, Frankl describes his perspective on the logotherapy of anxiety problems. He tells of personal contacts with Freud and Adler and contrasts his existential orientation with their theories. Frankl discusses cycles that perpetuate anxiety and outlines his method of paradoxical intention, which harnesses respectful humor to promote change. In Part Two, Frankl goes on to consider the existen

A young adult edition of the best-selling classic about the Holocaust and finding meaning in suffering, with a photo insert, a glossary of terms, a chronology of Frankl's life, and supplementary letters and speeches.

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist recounts his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp that led to the development of his existentialist approach to psychotherapy.