Man's search for meaning / Viktor E. Frankl ; foreword by John Boyne ; afterword by William J. Winslade.
In this work, a Viennese psychiatrist tells his grim experiences in a German concentration camp which led him to logotherapy, an existential method of psychiatry. This work has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of Nazi death camps an its lessons for spiritual survival.
Record details
- ISBN: 0807067997
- ISBN: 9780807067994
- Physical Description: xvii, 160 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition: Young readers edition.
- Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2017]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Grade 9 to 12. First published in Germany in 1946 as Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager ("Saying yes to life in spite of everything: a psychologist experiences the Concentration Camp"). First English-language edition published as From Death-Camp to Existentialism: A Psychiatrist's Path to a New Therapy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1959). |