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    Summary and Analysis of Man's Search for Meaning: Based on the Book by Victor E. Frankl
    Summary and Analysis of Man's Search for Meaning: Based on the Book by Victor E. Frankl
    Summary and Analysis of Man's Search for Meaning: Based on the Book by Victor E. Frankl
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    Summary and Analysis of Man's Search for Meaning: Based on the Book by Victor E. Frankl

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    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Man’s Search for Meaning tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Viktor E. Frankl’s book.
     
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    This short summary and analysis of Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl includes:
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    About Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl:
     
    Written just after World War II, Viktor Frankl’s international bestseller Man’s Search for Meaning is both a heartbreaking memoir and a source of inspiration for millions of readers.
     
    Dr. Frankl’s description of his time in a string of Nazi concentration camps is a fascinating, mandatory read for anyone wanting a better understanding of the Holocaust. A highly respected psychotherapist, his ideas on human emotion, the mind, mental health, tragic optimism, and the day-to-day neuroses of common people in the modern world provide spiritual guidance as each of us searches for meaning in our own lives.
     
    The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateFeb 14, 2017
    ISBN9781504044158
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      It did not give a thorough summary like it endorsed in synopsis. Really disappointed using my credit for this book. The content only brief fact about the author and bunch of links not the summary of the book itself.
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      I found the consice nature of the book refreshing. Good intro to Frankl.
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    Summary and Analysis of Man's Search for Meaning - Worth Books

    Contents

    Context

    Overview

    Summary

    Timeline

    Direct Quotes and Analysis

    Trivia

    What’s That Word?

    Critical Response

    About Viktor E. Frankl

    For Your Information

    Bibliography

    Copyright

    Context

    During World War II (1939–1945), millions of people suffered the physical and existential terror of the Nazi concentration camps. The names now are famous: Dachau, Buchenwald, Auschwitz-Birkenau (the largest—and, unlike the others, a combined death camp and labor camp). At the time war was declared, Viktor E. Frankl was a respected psychiatrist at the Rothschild Hospital in Vienna, Austria. His work had already made a great impact in his field. He had begun several highly successful programs to treat suicidal patients, and his opinions on psychological matters were highly sought-after across Europe, even by well-respected psychoanalysts such as Wilhelm Reich and Sigmund Freud. After the Nazi Anschluss—the German occupation of Austria—in 1938, Frankl was legally disallowed from treating Aryans, or non-Jews. Along with millions of other Jews, he and his family were persecuted and eventually detained in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. A successful psychiatrist with a probing mind, Frankl used much of what he’d learned about human psychology to survive—and help others survive—the camps. After a long and brutal imprisonment, during which almost all of his family perished, he was one of the few to walk out of Auschwitz at the end of the war.

    Frankl wrote a book about his experiences, describing in detail the lessons in human psychology he had gleaned from the extreme conditions of the camps. Nevertheless, Say Yes to Life, written in German and distributed under many other titles, was published anonymously in 1946, since Frankl didn’t believe it would have much public impact. But demand for the book soon grew. When the English translation, titled Man’s Search for Meaning, was finally published in 1959, it sold millions of copies. To this day, it is reprinted regularly.

    The central idea of Frankl’s work was the practice of logotherapy, a Greek-based term that more or less translates to meaning therapy. Never as broadly popularized as Freud’s psychotherapy or Rogerian group therapy, logotherapy is nonetheless spectacularly effective in treating patients with suicidal thoughts, midlife crises, depression, and various other conditions. The process of logotherapy involves seeking

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