Man's Search For Meaning, 9781846042843
Hardcover
Find meaning to survive: choose your attitude, transcend suffering.
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Man's Search For Meaning

the classic tribute to hope from the holocaust (with new material)

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  • Hardcover

    176 pages

  • Release Date

    30 April 2011

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Summary

Find Meaning in the Darkest of Times: A Journey of Hope and Resilience

A powerful and moving account of surviving Auschwitz, Viktor Frankl’s seminal work explores the human capacity to find meaning even in the face of unimaginable suffering.

A renowned psychiatrist before the war, Frankl observed how prisoners coped with the horrors of the concentration camp. He discovered that those who comforted others and maintained their inner moral compass were more likely to survive. F…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781846042843
ISBN-10:1846042844
Author:Viktor E. Frankl, Dr Martin Gilbert
Publisher:Ebury Publishing
Imprint:Rider & Co
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:176
Edition:Gift Edition
Release Date:30 April 2011
Weight:276g
Dimensions:222mm x 142mm x 17mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

An enduring work of survival literature

An enduring work of survival literature * New York Times *If you read but one book this year, Dr Frankl’s book should be that one. * Los Angeles Times *His works are essential reading for those who seek to understand the human condition. * Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks *A poignant testimony…a hymn to the phoenix rising in each of us who choose life before flight. * Brian Keenan, author of An Evil Cradling *One of the most remarkable books I have ever read. It changed my life * Susan Jeffers, author of Feel the Fear And Do It Anyway and Embracing Uncertainty *Influential and eloquent. * Jewish Chronicle *Perhaps the most significant thinking since Freud and Adler. * The American Journal of Psychiatry *Remarkable…It changed my life and became a part of all that I live and all that I teach. – Susan Jeffers, author of Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway and Embracing UncertaintyIf you read but one book this year, Dr Frankl’s book should be that one. * Los Angeles Times *

About The Author

Viktor E. Frankl

Viktor E Frankl (Author)

Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna in 1905 and was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School. His wife, father, mother and brother all died in Nazi concentration camps, only he and his sister survived, but he never lost the qualities of compassion, loyalty, undaunted spirit and thirst for life (earning his pilot’s licence aged 67). He died in Vienna in 1997.

Martin Gilbert (Introducer)

Sir Martin Gilbert CBE was Winston Churchill’s official biographer, and a leading historian of the twentieth century. An honorary fellow at Merton College, Oxford, he was knighted in 1995 ‘for service to British history and international relations’. He died in 2015.

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