Man's Search For Meaning

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Summary: What matters most?
Review: How can anyone read this and go unchanged? Viktor Frankl shows the life we have is not to be taken lightly or for granted.

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Summary: You'll see new meaning to life when you read this book.
Review: Everyone needs to read this book! When you read how decisions of whether to eat a whole slice of bread at one time, or prolong it - howyour major concern is whether your shoe laces will last all winter or not, you can appreciate more your life.--A book you'll never forget!

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Summary: Keen insight into the determination of the human spirit...
Review: Viktor Frankl takes a topic, logotherapy, and weaves into it the emotion, horror and insight of the holocaust in World War II.

Logotherapy is not explained only intellectually, but in recounting his life and stay during Auschwitz, Dachau, and other concentration camps, Frankl causes his readers to FEEL the necessity of understanding the treatment and survival of he, his family and friends.

An excellent, readable work for students, practicing psychiatrists, and all human kind.

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Summary: The High Price of Wisdom
Review: Half the book is about Dr. Frankl's experience in WWII concentration camps. It is gripping without being gory. His perspective as a scientist on what was happening to people mentally is most profound. The second half of the book describes his logotheraphy theory. It is neither too technical or dull, nor too dynamic. A nice even ground of a theory that makes complete sense. Bottom line, what this man went through to learn the eternal truth demands that we listen to what he says and search for our own meaning.

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Summary: anyone who even pretends to be educated should've read it
Review: Frankl discusses his own struggle as a prisoner in the Nazi death camps during World War II. As a psychiatrist and survivor, Frankl examines the role of motivation and the human desire to find meaning in existence. I can only echo the thoughts of my college psychology professor who said, "Anyone who even pretends to be educated should have read this book."

Rob Sullivan (author)
Climbing Your Way to the Bottom: Changing the Way You Approach Your Job Search
Pure Play Publishing, Inc., 1997

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Summary: A guide in the current age of despair.
Review: Viktor Frankl originally intended to publish "Man's Search for Meaning" anonymously. Ironically, Frankl is best known in North America for this powerful tribute to the strength of the human spirit. This work describes Frankl's survival of Auschwitz, and his observations of human sacrifice and meaningful living amidst conditions of intense human suffering. This book is an exquisite introduction to Logotherapy, Frankl's existential psychotherapy. It will deeply touch you, and will help you in your own struggle to find meaning in life.

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Summary: This is the most meaninful book I have ever read.
Review: I am a harsh critic although I love every kind of literature, from fiction to history. In the case of "Man's Search For Meaning" we must forget classification. It stands as the single most impressive book I have ever read. Imagine enduring three years of a consentration camp as a jew in Nazi Germany and then writing a book six months after your liberation with the words "we owe World War II a great debt . . . " Not many people could find anything positive to say about what happened. Mr. Frankl does. I recommend this book to every one who is important to me. It contains the my three favorite quotes. One is above, the others you must find for yourself. A meaningful experience, Victor Frankl's "Man's Search For Meaning". Review by Ken Ashe [e-mail]

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Summary: The courage for living.
Review: My therapist lent me this book to read at a time of crisis in which I had no sense of self-worth. I was suicidal. There were many instances descibed in this book where I found similarities in my emotional make-up although my sufferings were no where near that dramatic and "hopeless". In the words of Nietzsche : "He who has a WHY to live for can bear any HOW," I found peace within chaos. Although I did not understand some of the more difficult arguments, the book set me on the path to find my own meaning of life and the courage to live. I think that the meaning of life need not be one thing or action but can be several but I can only think of one thing now. The meaning of my life now is to touch the people I know or care about in the most tender and deep way I know how. And to see them happy even for a brief moment by what I do for them is quite enough. And everyday is a new day and there is opportunity me to do something positive in my own ways.

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Summary: Professor of Psychiatry and neurology and Auschwitz...
Review: What could a man like this teach us about the search for meaning?? Plenty, his determination to live and return to tell his story, is Heroic. Even though I woke one night in sweats during the reading of this book, I would never want to lose it. I will treasure it always.

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Summary: What's the meaning of life?
Review: Moving, thoughtful, and persuasive argument for having a life purpose told through firsthand accounts of life in Nazi death camps.

--Richard Brodie, author, Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Mem