Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

Viktor Frankl was a Viennese psychiatrist who spent years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz. In the first part of the book, he describes camp life from the inside. He traces how prisoners reacted in stages, from shock, to numbness, to the strange disorientation of liberation. He noticed that those who held on to a reason to live, such as a loved one, unfinished work, or a future goal, were often better able to endure. In the second part, Frankl explains logotherapy, his approach to psychology. He argues that our deepest drive is not pleasure or power but meaning. He says we can find it through what we create, through what and whom we love, and through the attitude we choose toward suffering we cannot avoid.

7 narrated, animated lessons · about 16 minutes in total.

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