Man’s Search for Meaning

Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager

Viktor E. Frankl

Frankl’s Holocaust memoir and psychological classic argues that meaning, responsibility, and inner freedom can survive even under extreme suffering.

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Published

1946

Publisher

Verlag für Jugend und Volk

Pages

184

ISBN-13

9780807014271

What this book opens

Man’s Search for Meaning combines Viktor Frankl’s concentration camp experiences with the foundations of logotherapy, his meaning-centered approach to psychotherapy.

The book argues that people can endure unimaginable suffering when they can locate meaning, responsibility, love, work, or dignity within it.

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Man’s Search for Meaning — https://www.beacon.org/Mans-Search-for-Meaning-P602.aspx
Publisher page for edition data and logotherapy framing.
Teacher’s Guide: Man’s Search for Meaning — https://www.beacon.org/Assets/ClientPages/MansSearchForMeaningtg.aspx
Themes of imprisonment, freedom, responsibility, and hope.
Man’s Search for Meaning — https://openlibrary.org/books/OL2848339M/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning
Edition metadata and identifiers.
Man’s Search for Meaning — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning
Publication history, structure, reception, and criticism.
Viktor Frankl: Life and Work — https://www.viktorfrankl.org/lifeandwork.html
Official career and logotherapy context.
Viktor Frankl Biography — https://www.viktorfrankl.org/biography.html
Detailed timeline of Frankl’s life and work.
Logotherapy and Existential Analysis — https://www.viktorfrankl.org/logotherapy.html
Official explanation of logotherapy.
About Logotherapy — https://www.viktorfranklinstitute.org/about-logotherapy/
Freedom of will, will to meaning, and meaning in life.
Searching for Meaning in Chaos: Viktor Frankl’s Story — https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8763215/
Academic article on meaning during concentration camp years.
Book Review: Man’s Search for Meaning — https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5111395/
Medical-journal review of the book.
Man’s Search for Meaning — https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201205/mans-search-for-meaning
Explains meaning as primary human motivation.
What to Know About Logotherapy — https://www.verywellmind.com/an-overview-of-victor-frankl-s-logotherapy-4159308
Practical introduction to logotherapy techniques.
Logotherapy: Viktor Frankl’s Theory of Meaning — https://positivepsychology.com/viktor-frankl-logotherapy/
Concepts, techniques, research, and resilience.
Logotherapy for Clinical Practice — https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22122533/
Clinical overview of logotherapy and applications.
Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy to Improve Immigrant Mental Health — https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7290245/
Application of meaning-centered therapy to displacement.
Viktor Frankl on the Human Search for Meaning — https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/03/26/viktor-frankl-mans-search-for-meaning/
Essay on meaning under suffering.
Viktor Frankl on the Art of Presence — https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/26/viktor-frankl-presence-mans-search-for-meaning/
Presence, love, attention, and inner life.
There’s More to Life Than Being Happy — https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/theres-more-to-life-than-being-happy/266805/
Connects Frankl’s meaning/happiness distinction to research.
What the lessons from Auschwitz teach us about the choices we make — https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/24/what-the-lessons-from-auschwitz-teach-us-about-the-choices-we-make
Reflects on freedom to choose one’s attitude.
The doctor who prescribed the meaning of life to his patients — https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/viktor-frankl/
Accessible explainer on logotherapy and meaning.

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