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Man's Search for Meaning

By Viktor Emil Frankl

Man’s Search for Meaning. Washington Square Press, 1985.

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Man's Search for Meaning

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The powerful account of a psychiatrist who survived the Nazi concentration camps and discovered the extraordinary will of human beings to find meaning in life, even as they faced horrible atrocities, leading to a revolutionary view on psychological thought.

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Psychiatrists and psychologists • medical professionals • historians • anyone interested in how human brains work • those seeking meaning in their lives

About the author of Man's Search for Meaning

Dr. Viktor Frankl was a medical doctor, psychiatrist, and professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Vienna. Born in Austria, he spent three years in various concentration camps during WWII and later developed his own psychotherapy philosophy which he called logotherapy. Frankl has published twenty-seven books in nineteen languages and given lectures at universities worldwide.

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