Man's Search for Meaning
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Man's search for meaning : An Introduction to Logotherapy. One of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years. Dr. Carl Rogers, psychologist and founder of Rogerian therapy. Viktor Frankls Mans Search for Meaning is one of the great books of our time. Typically, if a book has one passage, one idea with the power to change a persons life, that alone justifies reading it, rereading it, and finding room for it on ones shelves. This book has several such passages. Harold S. Kushner, author and rabbi emeritus at Temple Israel. Viktor Frankl's account of his battle for survival at Auschwitz and other concentration camps is included in Man's Search for Meaning, one of the great masterpieces to come out of the Holocaust. Generations of readers have been captivated by this book because of its depictions of life in Nazi death camps and its spiritual survival teachings. Frankl contends that although we cannot escape pain, we can decide how to manage it, find meaning in it, and go on with a new sense of purpose based on his personal experience and the testimonies of his patients. The belief that the pursuit of what we find significant, rather than pleasure, is the fundamental human motivation is at the core of his philosophy, which is known as logotherapy. One of the most important books in the Universe today is Man's Search for Meaning, which never stops encouraging us to discover meaning in life itself.