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Newly Revised and Enlarged * Third Edition MAN'S SEARCH menx NING AN INTRODUCTION TO LOGOTHERAPY “One of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years.” —Carl R. Rogers VIKTOR E. FRANKL Man’s Search for Meaning AN INTRODUGTION TO LOGOTHERARY ‘Thied Bion Viktor E. 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Bolte few (usygriggs—Peswia satan aun Se ee eed mene A Pobelagits Auden Dingeiphy.¢ Locale, DhongaPreneg ahs tense TRAN o-6y-agdrent Pb Fler puiised Jn Ans la tag unde dhe tie a Ppcoiog eet ees Kovsenvationtage, Als fa ist ae by Rupies ft Uitte Priore orton, Contents Preface by Gordan BF. Atiport 7 Preface tothe 1984 Edition 3 experience in a Concentration Camp. 5 Lagothovates in a Nutshell 10 naraener 198, Phe Case fora Frage Optima .235 Hibtiogrophy 235 "Preface Dr, Frankl, quthorpayebiatit, sometimes asks hit tines wha afer fram a mulinide oF torments seat ane anal, "Why do yen not commic sce?” rom thelr an sevens he cau offen Rid the guide-ine for Ids potsho- Aetapy: im one ile these i love for anes idee wo tet ‘m another ff, x tse 10 hs weds a clr, poss only lingering memories wera yueseing. "To weave Tse slender Heed of broken [ie fats fan pattern of rae jung andl reponsibiity i the object amd challenge uf loge ‘Bere, wich is We, Krank ov version of moder os tantiel ana 1 this buok, Dr. Frankl explaina che experience which Jad to is discovery of logouierapy. 82 longtime prisoner in bestia couerneraion camps he Sound hinvelf spp wo rake esisence, His father, mnther, brother, suet his wile dled ie cays ene set Ue ges oven, 90 eecepl Ing flor lesser, ie eau sally perished. whet carps. Mow could he—every posesion lost evry value desuoyed, snlfering rom hunger, cold and Lrvialiey, howe expecting fexteatination aw couk Ie Ed lle seed preserving? A. pSvEhGALN slo personally Lea fae such chine is a pspehiawsc worth Hsteing 10, He, 3 anyone, slab be b etave ble to view our human condition wieely and weit compas: tion, Dr. Frauk's wands have a profoundly Hens ting fr cy ror on experiences ton deep fer deception, What be Jaws tu sap psf. prestige heiause uf Lie presat position ‘on the Medea! Raeully of the Univesity of Vienwa and Tn ofthe ran the gahapy Sines a ray are aptiaging up im many labs, pallenoed ob is owe {emioos Nevrological Polilinie in Vena, ‘One cannot help but compare Viktor Frank's approach e theory and therapy with the work of his predecessor, Sigmund Fread. Both physicians concern themselves pri marily wieh the nanire abd cwe of nevreees Ered Ends Ae 0 ofthese disteatng diaordens in Une ansiety caused ‘bp conllcting and tncimacons sotives, Fraul istine frtaceseweal fram of weuwoss, am) sees some of Uacma ‘he scgenis neuter the athe of te sleet 40 Gad taeaning, aml a sense. ot mearinlity iv hie exlwence. ‘eeu stresses frorration in te senval fe; Heal fae fon in the “willeomenning” Im Barone today there i ratked owning away eu Prend and 9 widespread ex bracing of existenia} anatysic shit cea severat related ove choot of tgealerapy Weng one. I is charactor Jats of Frank oles cutlonk thac he dora nou repudiate read, but builds gladly 9m bis conten; ner dowd he fausrrel sich other forme of existentin? therapy, but fumes bias wih the “Fie present nacratve, bret tong is ally oon aruete and gripping. On se ccpine | have read it ‘rough at a sng iting, unable to break away frm ie spell Homevhere beyond the midpoiat of the sry Dr Frankl imwaduces his own. palloropiy of ogotherays: Ie incraduces i so gency inca the condinuing micrative that only after fishing the bnok des the reader rea‘ze that ther isan ena af rolound depth, and ue just one caere brutal ale of omeencation carpe Preface _9 From hi mutoblographlcal fragment the reader Teams sovch, He leana what a bvman being doce when be a ‘lealy veligs le as “noching co tove expt his 90 eda Teale aed Ife" Frau’ demiption of dre wed Daw of emotion and apaily'savesing, Fret 1 te eseue gon 2 etl detaclel amenity romeetting nes fate, Sw ty, ceome srateyine to prearee the geramanc of Sa He, though the chances of aervving aze aight, Ilene, anilistion, fear and deep anger at injustie are Fendered tolerable by Cusely guarded images of beloved persons, bY teligion, by 2 grim seneeof humor, and even by glimpacs of (Gc healing bemutes of narnse—a tee ora et ‘Buc these zaoments of consort do nou siti the will €2 tive wales they help ie prsoncr make larger sense out of Lis appaenly sen sulting Zt i ete Wat ye ete counter ‘he central thee of cxinensiatinn: co live is 10 toter, ws soreive to elmira in the xen ing Here isa punpose in Ue a all, here must be a purpase in suifler fad in dying, But ae man con tell anochar chat this prulpene ia Back mut Gnd ont for Mall, and mst accept the responoiliity th Mig answer paesertbes Ce succoeds Iie ermine grein pia af sl edges Bran fone of quoting Nietreche, "He wha bat a wtp to Ue can. bear wih alow ay Kea” In the conontracion camp Wry citewantance conspies (o maske the prisoner lowe ts tel, AI the fariine goats in Iie are matched away. What alone cemalay is “the ast of Juan Geedonue’—he abilfey to “chonee me's atte 4m 4 gfiven et of cinmances” Thie ultimate felon, re fgised Uy tbe ancient Stoes ae well as by modern evister Aalst, takes om vivid sigaieamce jn Really srg, ‘The pritoners wexe omy average men, bul awe, at Tea, BY hosing 10 be “worthy of there autering” pramel rin's Capacity 1 ae above bis unewurd Fate ‘As a pachtherapiat, the euthor, of core, wants 1 a Prete Bow how suem cam be help us arkiewe te ditineively human capactey. Hw com one asks in a patent the restate mena tLe fur tmieing, owen sin his dreummcanes muy be? Frvnkl gives us mowing secoune of one collective therajentic sein he Del with hic fille peer ‘Atthe publishers request Dr, Vrankl haa added sate meat of the bac tener of logothernpy as well a4 BDO zaply. Up to nov most of the publiations of this "Thind Viennese Sencol af Paychothcrapy (che predecessor being 0 Freudian and Adlevian School have lacn <biefly in Geronan, The seuder will eters welooma De. Feaskls upplesannt tu hi pesal narative. Unlike oiany oropenn existencalsts Eran is neither pense mor natinigions. Om Ue contrary, Sor » iter why ages Fall dhe ubiquity of suing and lie forces of fet Ie akon mirprsingly hope wie of mae capacity te temicend bis predicament and discover an adequate siding crt recommend this Lite book bearily, (ot St isa gem of dramatic narrative, focused pon the deepest of human probloms, Te has Witeraxy and piilosoplical mesic and yo Vides s cetayelling introdusaiun 12 dhe aoe significant poyriolegical maveraen wordy. Gomes We, Atay Sean alors fra « naar of play et Mach herthiar id ne he eto ce owe of teu ead So ingen egag apy aan wana es Bee Preface to the 1984 Edition This Luoh as wows Toe to seri wvemtythid printing Ja Eaglt—in addieion wo leing een published fm nine teen oiler lngeages. And the Enplish efiions albae have sold alma neo anda elf lion copie. “These are the dry facts, and dhey may well be dhe reason vehy reporters of Americin newspapers and partenlaly of ‘American TV ations more ofan than not watt their in lerviges aller Tsing thrar Laon Ly extbtming: “Te Frankl, your boot has Uccome + ave Leauellet—liow do ‘you Jel alow suel # sucess?” Whereupunt french I oe porting that in ike fest pire J da mnt at all eee in dhe erudite states of my hook 99 much an. achievement ard ccomplishrieme on may part 3 an expresion wf the walzery of our sme: hundreds of dhonmands of people reach oot fora took wise very dle prom‘ses to deal with dhe ques tion ofa meaning to ite, ic mat be a question that burns ‘under their geal, Fo be aut, something cae may have contzibyced co the Iimact of che book: it second, tharercal part (*Logother: aps in'a Naha") bolls down, ac i were, fo the lesan one ray dis trom che fat pare, ce autobiographical acount (Rupevionoes im a Concaniestion Canny). whereas Pare