Summary and Analysis of Man's Search for Meaning: Based on the Book by Victor E. Frankl
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About Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl:
Written just after World War II, Viktor Frankl’s international bestseller Man’s Search for Meaning is both a heartbreaking memoir and a source of inspiration for millions of readers.
Dr. Frankl’s description of his time in a string of Nazi concentration camps is a fascinating, mandatory read for anyone wanting a better understanding of the Holocaust. A highly respected psychotherapist, his ideas on human emotion, the mind, mental health, tragic optimism, and the day-to-day neuroses of common people in the modern world provide spiritual guidance as each of us searches for meaning in our own lives.
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Summary and Analysis of Man's Search for Meaning - Worth Books
Contents
Context
Overview
Summary
Timeline
Direct Quotes and Analysis
Trivia
What’s That Word?
Critical Response
About Viktor E. Frankl
For Your Information
Bibliography
Copyright
Context
During World War II (1939–1945), millions of people suffered the physical and existential terror of the Nazi concentration camps. The names now are famous: Dachau, Buchenwald, Auschwitz-Birkenau (the largest—and, unlike the others, a combined death camp and labor camp). At the time war was declared, Viktor E. Frankl was a respected psychiatrist at the Rothschild Hospital in Vienna, Austria. His work had already made a great impact in his field. He had begun several highly successful programs to treat suicidal patients, and his opinions on psychological matters were highly sought-after across Europe, even by well-respected psychoanalysts such as Wilhelm Reich and Sigmund Freud. After the Nazi Anschluss—the German occupation of Austria—in 1938, Frankl was legally disallowed from treating Aryans, or non-Jews. Along with millions of other Jews, he and his family were persecuted and eventually detained in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. A successful psychiatrist with a probing mind, Frankl used much of what he’d learned about human psychology to survive—and help others survive—the camps. After a long and brutal imprisonment, during which almost all of his family perished, he was one of the few to walk out of Auschwitz at the end of the war.
Frankl wrote a book about his experiences, describing in detail the lessons in human psychology he had gleaned from the extreme conditions of the camps. Nevertheless, Say Yes
to Life, written in German and distributed under many other titles, was published anonymously in 1946, since Frankl didn’t believe it would have much public impact. But demand for the book soon grew. When the English translation, titled Man’s Search for Meaning, was finally published in 1959, it sold millions of copies. To this day, it is reprinted regularly.
The central idea of Frankl’s work was the practice of logotherapy,
a Greek-based term that more or less translates to meaning therapy.
Never as broadly popularized as Freud’s psychotherapy or Rogerian group therapy, logotherapy is nonetheless spectacularly effective in treating patients with suicidal thoughts, midlife crises, depression, and various other conditions. The process of logotherapy involves seeking