Man's Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl, one of the leading psychiatrists of the 20th century, explains the principles of logotherapy, which he founded, accompanied by his experiences in a concentration camp during the Second World War, in his book Man's Search for Meaning, which has been translated into more than thirty foreign languages and sold more than 12 million copies worldwide. Readers will notice that the concentration camp Frankl describes becomes a brilliant metaphor for understanding the world as a larger prison. Gasset - Explaining the process that will help us discover "meaning" in the harsh conditions of existence - in the light of the thoughts we are familiar with from Heidegger and Sartre - Frankl - "What makes a human being a human being?" He also tries to answer the question. “What was really needed – was a fundamental change in our attitude towards life. We had to learn, and even more so teach desperate people, that it doesn't really matter what we expect from life - what really matters is what life expects from us. We need to stop asking questions about the meaning of life - instead think of ourselves as people who are questioned by life every day - every hour. Our response had to consist not in talk or meditation but in right action and right living. Life in the ultimate sense means finding the right solutions to problems and taking responsibility for fulfilling the tasks that it constantly sets for each individual.” Facing Life An Autobiography on the Search for Meaning “Maybe I am like this because of what life has presented to me. I advise everyone, over and over again, to do what I have adopted as a principle in my own life: If something bad happens to me, I kneel down (of course not really - I just imagine kneeling) and hope with all my heart that nothing worse than this happens in the future.” Viktor E. Frankl, who both tells about his experiences in concentration camps during the Second World War and shares the principles of logotherapy, which he founded, with his book Man's Search for Meaning, which has sold millions of copies worldwide, is here with his own life story... Frankl, following the path of meaning-centered psychotherapy, tells his family's house to Sigmund. He tells in a simple language his first contacts with Freud and Alfred Adler - his work with suicidal young people - his resistance to the Nazis - his exile and his return to Vienna, where he spent most of his life. Despite all his losses, pains and experiences during his search for meaning, he completes his life, which is shaped around optimism, with photographs from his family archive. Meeting Life: An Autobiography on the Search for Meaning will be your guide when you have to answer the questions that life asks you and when you realize that you can only answer these questions by taking responsibility for your own existence.
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