The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

Frankl, Viktor E.

ISBN 10: 0142181269 / ISBN 13: 9780142181263

Published by Plume, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy
• Publisher: Plume
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0142181269
• ISBN 13: 9780142181263
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

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.

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.