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Frankl  \nPART ONE TRANSLATED BY ILSE LASCH PREFACE BY GORDON W. ALLPORT  \nWith more than 4 million copies in print in the English language alone, Man's Search for Meaning, the chilling yet inspirational story of Viktor Frankl's struggle to hold on to hope during his three years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, is a true classic. Beacon Press is now pleased to present a special gift edition of a work that was hailed in 1959 by Carl Rogers as \"one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years.\" Frankl's training as a psychiatrist informed every waking moment of his ordeal and allowed him a remarkable perspective on the psychology of survival. His assertion that \"the will to meaning\" is the basic motivation for human life has forever changed the way we understand our humanity in the face of suffering.  \nBEACON PRESS  \nTO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER  \nBeacon Press 25 Beacon Street  \nBoston, [Massachusetts 02108-2892 www.beacon.org](Massachusetts 02108-2892 www.beacon.org)[ ](Massachusetts 02108-2892 www.beacon.org)Beacon Press books  \nare published under the auspices of  \nthe Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.  \n© 1959, 1962, 1984, 1992 by Viktor E. Frankl All rights reserved  \nPrinted in the United States of America First published in German in 1946 under the title  \nEin Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager. Original English title was From Death-Camp to Existentialism.  \n05 04 03 02 01  \n8765432  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Frankl, Viktor Emil.  \n[Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager. English] Man's search for meaning: an introduction to logotherapy / Viktor E. Frankl; part one translated by Use Lasch; preface by Gordon W. Allport.—4th ed.  \n[p. cm. Includes bibl](p. cm. Includes bibl)iographical references (p. ) .  \nISBN 0-8070-1426-5 (cloth) 1. Frankl, Viktor Emil. 2. Holocaust, Jewish (1939—1945)—Personal narratives. 3. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—  \nPsychological aspects. 4. Psychologists—Austria—Biography.  \n5. Logotherapy. I. Title.  \nD810J4F72713 1992 i5o. ig'5—dc2o 92-21055  \nContents  \nPreface  \nby Gordon W. Allport, Preface to the 1992 Edition II  \nPART ONE  \nExperiences in a Concentration Camp  \nPART TWO  \nLogotherapy in a Nutshell  \nPOSTSCRIPT 1984  \nThe Case for a Tragic Optimism  \nSelected English Language Bibliography of Logotherapy About the Author  \nPreface  \nDr. Frankl, author-psychiatrist, sometimes asks his patients who suffer from a multitude of torments great and small, \"Why do you not commit suicide?\" From their answershe can often find the guide-line for his psycho-therapy: in one life there is love for one's children to tie to; in another life, a talent to be used; in a third, perhaps only lingering memories worth preserving. To weave these slender threadsofa broken life into a firm pattern of meaning and responsibility is the object and challenge of logo-therapy, which is Dr. Frankl's own version of modern existential analysis. In this book, Dr. Frankl explains the experience which led to his discovery of logotherapy. As a longtime prisoner in bestial concentration camps he found himself stripped to naked existence. His father, mother, brother, and his wife died in camps or were sent to the gas ovens, so that, excepting for his sister, his entire family perished in these camps. How could he—every possession lost, every value destroyed, suffering from hunger, cold and brutality, hourly expecting extermination—how could he find life worth preserving? A psychiatrist who personally has faced such extremity is a psychiatrist worth listening to. He, if anyone, should be able to view our human condition wisely and with compassion. Dr. Frankl's words have a profoundly honest ring, for they rest on experiences too deep for deception. 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