

Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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