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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.

By: Language: English Original language: German Publication details: Boston : Beacon Press, c2006.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780807014288
  • 0807014281
Uniform titles:
  • Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 940.53/18092 B 22
LOC classification:
  • D810.J4 F72713 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword / Harold S. Kushner -- Preface to the 1992 edition -- Experiences in a concentration camp -- Logotherapy in a nutshell -- Postscript 1984: The case for a tragic optimism -- Afterword / William J. Winslade.
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.
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Ebook Ebook NMC Library EBSCO Ebooks Online D810.J4 F72713 2006 EBOOK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available online - NMC Login required 2019-235286

Intro to Social Psychology

Electronic book.

Foreword / Harold S. Kushner -- Preface to the 1992 edition -- Experiences in a concentration camp -- Logotherapy in a nutshell -- Postscript 1984: The case for a tragic optimism -- Afterword / William J. Winslade.

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.

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