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Man's Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose to each person's life through one of three ways: the completion of tasks, caring for another person, or finding ...
- Viktor Emil Frankl
- 1946
It’s called Man’s Search For Meaning and became a world-wide bestseller. It still is today. Here are 3 lessons about the meaning of life from a holocaust survivor, acclaimed academic,...
Man's Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as an Auschwitz concentration camp inmate during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose in life to feel positively about, and then immersively imagining that outcome.
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Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) was an Austrian neurologist, psychologist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force.
Nov 19, 2018 · Viktor E. Frankl was a highly respected psychiatrist in his native Austria when he was transported to Auschwitz in 1944. Against all odds, Frankl survived. After his liberation, and having lost his wife and his family, he wrote Man’s Search for Meaning about his experience in the death camps.
Man’s Search For Meaning is an exploration of how one may find meaning in the most unusual places, even in the horrendous environment that was characteristic of Nazi-Germany concentration camps. Frankl describes his lessons learned as a holocaust survivor, and how his experiences shaped his understanding of meaning.
Aug 31, 2021 · This study focuses specifically on the period between 1942 and 1945. The aim is to explore Frankl’s search for meaning within an unpredictable, life-threatening, and chaotic context through the lens of his concept of noö-dynamics. Keywords: Viktor Frankl, existentialism, Holocaust, noö-dynamics, psychobiography.
