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Man's search for meaning / Viktor E. Frankl ; part one translated by Ilse Lasch ; foreword by Harold S. Kushner ; afterword by William J. Winslade.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection D805.G3 F7233 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frankl, Viktor E. (Viktor Emil), 1905-1997, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Frankl, Viktor E. (Viktor Emil), 1905-1997.
- Frankl, Viktor E.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
- Psychologists--Austria--Biography.
- Psychologists.
- Nazi concentration camp inmates--Biography.
- Nazi concentration camp inmates.
- Logotherapy.
- Meaning (Psychology).
- Existentialism.
- Psychotherapy.
- Prisons.
- existentialism.
- Psychological aspects.
- Austria.
- German literature--Translations into English.
- German literature.
- Medical Subjects:
- Existentialism.
- Prisons.
- Psychotherapy.
- Genre:
- War and conflict.
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Personal narratives
- Autobiographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 165 pages : portrait ; 22 cm
- portrait
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2006]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- "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 of his many patients, he argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. His theory, known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos (meaning), holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful."
- Contents:
- Foreword / Harold S. Kushner
- Preface to the 1992 edition / Viktor E. Frankl
- Experiences in a concentration camp
- Logotherapy in a nutshell
- Postscript 1984: The case for a tragic optimism
- Afterword / William J. Winslade.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in German in 1946 under the title: Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager. Original English title was: From Death Camp to Existentialism"--Title page verso. Reprinted in paperback in 2006 with a new foreword and a new afterword.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0807014273
- 9780807014271
- 9781663607980
- 1663607982
- OCLC:
- 68940601
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