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Man's Search for Meaning
	Author: Viktor E. Frankl Publisher: Beacon Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$6.99~~ Buy New: $2.91 You Save: $4.08 (58%) New (32) Used (45) Collectible (1) from $2.91 Rating: 73 reviews Sales Rank: 204 Media: Mass Market Paperback Edition: 1 Pages: 165 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1 Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.6 ISBN: 080701429X Dewey Decimal Number: 302 EAN: 9780807014295 ASIN: 080701429X Publication Date: June 14, 2006 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Brand New and Factory Sealed Item Fast Shipping


Editorial Reviews: Product Description Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. 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 avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's 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. At the time of Frankl's death in 1997, Man's Search for Meaning had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. A 1991 reader survey by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America. Born in Vienna in 1905 Viktor E. Frankl earned an M.D. and a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna. He published more than thirty books on theoretical and clinical psychology and served as a visiting professor and lecturer at Harvard, Stanford, and elsewhere. In 1977 a fellow survivor, Joseph Fabry, founded the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy. Frankl died in 1997. Harold S. Kushner is rabbi emeritus at Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, and the author of several best-selling books, including When Bad Things Happen to Good People. William J. Winslade is a philosopher, lawyer, and psychoanalyst at the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston.