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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 150.195 EAN: 9780738203546 ISBN: 0738203548 Label: Basic Books Manufacturer: Basic Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: 2000-07 Publisher: Basic Books Studio: Basic Books Sales Rank: 70936 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Viktor Frankl is known to millions of readers as a psychotherapist who has transcended his field in his search for answers to the ultimate questions of life, death, and suffering. Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning explores the sometime unconscious human desire for inspiration or revelation, and illustrates how life can offer profound meaning at every turn. Amazon.com Review: Viktor Frankl, author of the smash bestseller Man's Search for Meaning, offers a more straightforward alternative to traditional Freudian psychoanalysis: one's problems may be rooted in a failure to find a meaning in life beyond one's interior world. The basis for his interpretation, however, is not so straightforward. It lies in Frankl's existential analysis, plumbing for the reasons that people have repressed their consciences, their love, their creativity. By legitimizing a spiritual aspect of the human mind, Frankl has separated us definitively from the animal kingdom, but it is still up to each of us to rise to our human potential. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Precious insights from one of the 20th century's greatest mindsThere can be no question that Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning is a much more difficult read than Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning. Is it worth it? Yes, many times over. The genesis of Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning was produced by Dr. Frankl a few months after his release from a Nazi death camp when WWII ended. This is the precious manuscript the Nazi's tore from his hands and he reproduced with notes on tiny scraps of paper in the death camp. Originally titled, "The Unconscious God," it was ... Read More Rating: - All the Wisdom Fit to printHere Frankl continues the existential quest begun in his earlier book "Mans Search for Meaning." The reader may recall that it was this earlier book that launched his foray into a new form of analysis he invented and coined "Logo-therapy." Here, as Jean Paul Sartre had done before him, Frankl draws a bright line between his solidly existentialist views, and its instrumentality, Logo-therapy; and Freud's psychology, and its instrumentality, psychoanalysis. The essential distinction that ... Read More Rating: - Hard reading but interesting and useful.I enjoyed parts of this book, but not all of it, for I couldn't understand most of it. This is a book to read more than once to really understand, unless you are a psychologist. I will certainly read it again; I am sure I missed a lot of important and useful information. A lot of the material has to do with the interpretation of dreams, and about the theories of Freud. I also found the book too technical for the average reader, and found it confusing at times. For example, the author says, ... Read More Rating:  - The Unconscious GodI named my review, The Unconscious God, because that was one of the former titles of this book. In fact, I own a copy and all of the chapters have the same names/content. Viktor Frankl may have felt that his Freudian sounding title from the past was embarrassing in an age when many of Freud's ideas have been shown to be circular in reasoning as well as unscientific. Not only that, but I wonder if Dr. Frankl may have changed the name of the book so that people don't see what it's really about. It's about ... Read More Rating: - Away with the existential vacuum!"We psychiatrists are neither teachers nor preachers but have to learn from the man in the street, from his ... self-understanding, what being human is all about". Of all those who applied existentialism to psychotherapy and to the efforts of human beings to help themselves, perhaps none has done so with as much wisdom as Viktor Frankl. Although I didn't connect with the first 50 or so pages of this book, after that I was challenged and inspired by Frankl. His concerns, the "existential vacuum", ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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