Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

Name: Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning
Brand: Ascent Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2.5 (4 reviews)
Author: Viktor E. Frankl
ISBN: 9781596591837

Author: Viktor E. Frankl

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 4 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 02/05/2008

Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology, Mental Health

Synopsis

Viktor Frankl is known to millions of listeners as a psychotherapist who has transcended his field in his search for answers to the ultimate questions of life, death, and suffering. Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning explores the sometimes unconscious basic human desire for inspiration or revelation and illustrates how life can offer profound meaning at every turn.

About Viktor E. Frankl

Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) became one of the great psychotherapists of the twentieth century. His interest in psychology began as a teenager. He earned a degree as a medical doctor and served at a psychiatric hospital. In 1942, he and his family were sent to Nazi concentration camps, where his wife, father, mother, and brother perished. After his release, he became a professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School and was head of the neurological department of the Vienna Polyclinic Hospital for twenty-five years. He wrote thirty-one works on philosophy, psychotherapy, and neurology, including the international bestseller Man's Search for Meaning, based on his experiences as a concentration camp prisoners. He was the founder of the school of logotherapy, which came to be called the third Viennese School of Psychotherapy, after Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis and Alfred Adler's individual psychology.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brandon on October 07, 2018

A lot of this book is religious drivel. Frankl’s main intent, I think, is to sell his come-to-Jesus mode of therapy. In the course of this, he does advance a few profound and interesting theses. For those who don’t find their street-corner proselytizer particularly compelling, I’d recommend reading c......more

Goodreads review by Greg on May 22, 2014

Thinking I had picked up the storied, heralded "Man's Search for Meaning", I was mesmerized by Frankl's easy way with discussing abstract psychological concepts, and applying them to concrete situations. But the shine did not wear off once I learned it was another "meaning" book by the logo-therapy......more

Goodreads review by Feroz on May 18, 2015

This was a very good book ! I learned that we can find meaning to every single situation and reason, that there might be something other than a whole, wide meaning to life.. And, that we can find meaning in suffering/through it ! Journey on the search for meaning just got a lot more wider and is acc......more

Goodreads review by Blanca A. on December 31, 2019

Octubre 2019 Contaré mi historia personal con el libro. Este año, estoy en duelo lo que implica dolor, al leer el trabajo de Frankl me dí cuenta que muchas veces no importa qué tanto nos duele, importa más lo que aprendemos de ello y lo necesario que es entender nuestro dolor y enfocarlo.......more