索书号：B84-066/F831m(3)(HF)
Man’s search for meaning: an introduction to logotherapy
Contents
PART ONE Experiences in a Concentration Camp
PART TWO Logotherapy in a Nutshell
POSTSCRIPT 1984 The Case for a Tragic Optimism
Abstract
Few books in recent decades have had the continuing impact of Dr. Viktor Frankl’s
Man's Search for Meaning— the classic best seller now considered to be one of the most
important contributions to psychiatry since the writing of Freud. In it, Dr. FrankI gives a
moving account of his life amid the horrors of the Nazi death camps, chronicling the
harrowing experience that led to his discovery of his theory of logotherapy. A profound
revelation born out of Dr. Frankl's years as a prisoner in Auschwitz and other
concentration camps, logotherapy is a modern and positive approach to the mentally or
spiritually disturbed personality. Stressing man's freedom to transcend suffering and find
a meaning to his life regardless of his circumstances, it is a theory which, since its
conception, has exercised a tremendous influence upon the entire field of psychiatry and
psychology.
Here, Dr. FrankI not only describes the genesis and development of logotherapy but
also explains its basic concepts, and in this revised and enlarged edition, has included a
new chapter, entitled "The Case for a Tragic Optimism," in which he updates theoretical
conclusions of the book. The result is an invaluable work by one of the world's
preeminent psychiatrists.