| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
189 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
A Touchstone book
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| Note |
Translation of: Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager. |
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Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Beacon Press, 1963. With new preface and postscript. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: 155-189. |
| Contents |
Preface / Gordon W. Allport -- Preface to the 1984 edition -- Part 1. Experiences in a concentration camp -- Part 2. Logotherapy in a nutshell -- Postscript : the case for a tragic optimism -- Bibliography. |
| Summary |
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. Frankl 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. |
| Subject |
Frankl, Viktor E. (Viktor Emil), 1905-1997.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
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Psychologists -- Austria -- Biography.
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Logotherapy.
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Psychoanalytic Therapy.
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Warfare.
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| Added Title |
Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager. English
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| ISBN |
0671244221 |
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9780671244224 |
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