Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 150
EAN: 9781844132393
ISBN: 1844132390
Label: Rider & Co
Manufacturer: Rider & Co
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: May 06, 2004
Publisher: Rider & Co
Sales Rank: 283
Studio: Rider & Co

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl's imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live. The second part of the book, called "Logotherapy in a Nutshell" describes the psychotherapeutic method that Frankl pioneered as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps. Freud believed that sexual instincts and urges were the driving force of humanity's life; Frankl, by contrast, believes that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. Therefore, Frankl's logotherapy is much more compatible with western religions than Freudian psychotherapy. This is a fascinating, sophisticated and very human book. At times, Frankl's personal and professional discourses merge into a style of tremendous power. "Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is", Frankl writes. "After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips." --Christine Buttery




Rating: - Courageous
This is a very short book and is my only criticism I have of it. I wish it could be longer. The author talks about his time in the concentration camp written in a very matter of fact and authentic way. It is very courageous what he has gone through and inspirational. From his time in the concentration camp, he goes on to talk about the meaning of life and how it matters to those that has survived.

Quite possibly one of the best message I have read concerning the meaning of life and ... Read More

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Rating: - Exceptionally deep.
What gives this book a very distinguished credibility and authenticity is the pertinent fact that the author formulated his ideas while as a Holocaust prisoner. Immediately the reader is taken out of the comfort zone as the captive and dehumanising realities of such a barbaric context are presented.

Frankl looks very very deeply at what provides human strength to get over the most forlorn, hopeless and torturing circumstances. Nietzche's dictum "What doesn't kill us only make us stronger?" ... Read More

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Rating: - Throw out your self-help books!
This is an utterly remarkable book for so many reasons. The work as a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. What I mean by this is the following: the book is not great psychology, nor great philosophy nor even great narrative. And yet, as a whole it is a truly great book.

Why? Because it makes a definitive impact. I cannot say that I walked away from this book unchanged. I suppose it is Viktor Frankl himself who makes all the difference -- in him you find a truly humane, humble and ultimately ... Read More

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Rating: - The search for meaning through experience and psychology
I was shocked by the small size when I received this book from Amazon. I had heard so much about the book, and expected a great deal from it. Compared to most books in the self-help section, this book is tiny, but Frenkl conveys his story clearly and succinctly in 150 pages.

Assuming that his readers will have read or heard the more gruesome details of the concentration camp, Frenkl describes the daily reality of a prisoner's experience. With poignant moments scattered throughout the first (autobiographic) ... Read More

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Rating: - Prepare to be inspired and humbled
This book was recomneded to me by a good friend, I was hesitant to read it due to the concentration camp element being very upsetting and emotional however I am pleased to say there is enough information about the author first to warm you up and also a lot of reasoning behind his choices of the content he has included and his decision not to go into too much detail over the experiences in the concentration camp, it allows you to understand what was going on in the minds of the prisoners without being too upsetting it also ... Read More

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