iption of the product Memoir psychiatrist Viktor Frankl rivetted generations of readers with its descriptions of the life in the camps of dead the Nazis and of its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl worked in four various camps, in particular Auschwitz, while his/her parents, his brother and his expectant mother perished. On the basis of its own experience and the experiments of those qu' it treated in its practice, Frankl supports that we cannot avoid the suffering, but we can choose the way d' there to face, to find a direction in it, and to go from l' before with l' renewed objective. Frankl theoryknown like logothérapie, starting from the Greek word logos (“direction”) indicate that our principal disc in the life n' is the pleasure, like Freud not maintained, but the discovery and the continuation of this qu' one finds a significance personal...
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 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.
