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by Viktor E. Frankl

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Holocaust survivor Viktor E. Frankl converted the horrors he experienced in a German concentration camp into the pioneering philosophy he called logotherapy. Unlike Freud’s “will to pleasure” and Adler’s “will to power,” Frankl based logotherapy on three things: the freedom of will, the will to meaning, and the meaning of life. By presenting three methodological concepts, Frankl shows how we can all reinvigorate our experiences and tie them to will and power.

Originally published in 1988 and compiling Frankl’s speeches on logotherapy, The Will to Meaning is regarded as a seminal work of behavior therapy.

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From the author of Man's Search for Meaning, one of the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud.

Holocaust survivor Viktor E. Frankl is known as the founder of logotherapy, a mode of psychotherapy based on man's motivation to search for meaning in his life. The author discusses his ideas in the context of other prominent psychotherapies and describes the techniques he uses with his patients to combat the "existential vacuum."

Originally published in 1969 and compiling Frankl's speeches on logotherapy, The Will to Meaning is regarded as a seminal work of meaning-centered therapy. This new and carefully re-edited version is the first since 1988.

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  • Title The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy
  • Author Viktor E. Frankl
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Expanded
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Plume Books
  • Publication date 2014-06-24
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780142181263 / 0142181269
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.5 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Existential psychotherapy, Logotherapy
  • Dewey Decimal Code 616.891

Media reviews

“Perhaps the most significant thinking since Freud and Adler.”
– The American Journal of Psychiatry
 
“Frankl is one of the most famous and gifted of all psychiatrists… The incredible attempts to dehumanize man at Auschwitz and Dachau led Frankl to commence the humanization of psychiatry through logotherapy. Frankl is a professional who possesses the rare ability to write in a layman’s language.”
– Dr. Gerald F. Kreyche, Chairman

“I regard this book as one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years.”
– Dr. Carl Rogers 
 
“Dr. Frankl’s contribution to psychotherapy has been great. He is perhaps the only non-behaviorist to have contributed a method to behavior therapy. The modesty with which he has put forward his important work has been remarkable.”
– Dr. Joseph Wolpe

About the author

Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997) was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna. During World War II, he spent three years in Auschwitz, Dachau, and other concentration camps. He was the founder of the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy--the school of logotherapy--and President of the Austrian Medical Society of Psychotherapy. His twenty-nine books have been translated into twenty-one languages.

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