Few books have the ability to change your life. This one IS one to do just that. Frustrated and confused this book fell into my path and changed it.-Shara
"Dr. Frankl gives a moving account of his life amid the horrors of the Nazi death camps, chronicling the harrowing experience that led to his discovery of his theory of logotherapy. A profound revelation born out of Dr. Frankl's years as a prisoner in Auschwitz and other concentration camps, logotherapy is a modern and positive approach to the mentally or spiritually disturbed personality. Stressing man's freedom to transcend suffering and find a meaning to his life regardless of his tremendous influence upon the entire field of psychiatry and psychology. Here, Dr. Frankl not only describes the genesis and development of logotherapy but also explains its basic concepts, and in this revised and enlarged edition, has included a new chapter, entitled "The Case for a Tragic Optimism," in which he updates theoretical conclusions of the book. The result is an invaluable work by one of the world's permanent psychiatrists."
ONE of my MANY favorite quotes...
"There is a danger inherent in the teaching of mans "nothingbutness," the theory that man is nothing but the result of biological , psychological and sociological conditions, or the product of heredity and environment. Such view of man makes a neurotic believe what he is prone to believe anyway, namely, that he the pawn and victim of outer influences or inner circumstances. This neurotic fatalism is fostered and strengthened by a psychotherapy which denies that man is free."
Sooo poetic...LOVE it!
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