Man's Search for Meaning (edit title)

Shelfari edited the contributors of Man's Search for Meaning Thursday, October 1 2009.

• Added a contributor: VIKTOR E. FRANKL: (Primary None)

Timothy Gray approved Lynn W’s request to combine 34 books, including Man's Search for Meaning, Saturday, August 29 2009.

Lynn W submitted a request to combine 34 books, including Man's Search for Meaning, Friday, August 7 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Man's Search for Meaning Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of those he treated in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory—known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos ("meaning")—holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful. At the time of Frankl's death in 1997, Man's Search for Meaning had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. A 1991 reader survey by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America. Born in Vienna in 1905 Viktor E. Frankl earned an M.D. and a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna. He published more than thirty books on theoretical and clinical psychology and served as a visiting professor and lecturer at Harvard, Stanford, and elsewhere. In 1977 a fellow survivor, Joseph Fabry, founded the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy. Frankl died in 1997. Harold S. Kushner is rabbi emeritus at Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, and the author of several best-selling books, including When Bad Things Happen to Good People. William J. Winslade is a philosopher, lawyer, and psychoanalyst at the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Man's Search for Meaning Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Viktor Emil Frankl:

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Man's Search for Meaning Friday, July 17 2009.

• THIS BOOK DOES NOT CLAIM TO BE AN ACCOUNT OF facts and events but of personal experiences, experiences which millions of prisoners have suffered time and again.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Man's Search for Meaning Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: Viktor Emil Frankl: (Primary Author)

Peiyu W edited the quotations of Man's Search for Meaning Monday, July 13 2009.

• Added a quotation: “for the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour”
• Added a quotation: “He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How”
• Added a quotation: “Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now”
• Added a quotation: “Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions”
• Added a quotation: “therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated”