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Loading... Man's Search For Meaningby Viktor Frankl
Frankl, Viktor E. (1985). Man's Search for Meaning. A Washington Square Press publication of Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Shuster, Inc. New York: Washington Square Press. One of my touchstone books that read every few years. Frankl found spiritual lessons in the depths of Nazi death camps that resonant for me wherever life takes me. Hard to argue with the guy's conclusions, after understanding how he came to them. Hands down one of the most inspiring and beautiful books I've ever read. Viktor Frankl writes with the greatest dignity about his experiences during the Holocaust and about finding meaning. It's heartbreaking and deeply moving. If this is your first taste of the craptastic reality of WWII concentration camps and the fantastic power of psychotherapy, then it should blow you away. (I bet this will be a 5 star read for any newbie student of the human condition.) But if your mental moccasins have already tread those pathways, then you might only be nodding your head in agreement a lot. (So probably a 3-5 star read for a more worldly sort.) For me, the best content was in the section where Frankl discussed Logotherapy. I especially liked that he wanted people to push outside the me-centered universe of one's neuroses to get to an externally based reference frame that could look forward to the future. IMO, the future is all about US. You AND me. In my view of reality, there is space for us to juggle both our own needs and the needs of others. Hmm. Maybe I should open a juggling school... no reviews | add a review
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