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Man S Search For Meaning
Man S Search For Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl
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Tamra
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I learned about logotherapy, which makes intuitive sense. Humorous anecdote about the client who had been in psychoanalysis for 5 years being told the root of his problem was the relationship with his father when in fact he just needed/wanted a change in career! 😆 One or two sessions with Frankl and done! I wish we could all have a Frankl in our lives.

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MahsaNjm
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It was perfect guidance for life way

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Shannon_McKinney
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An incredible way to live life well. A WWII holocaust survivor story along with his perspective being a psychologist and neurologist.

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chlolovesbooks
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️5/5 Amazing read. Everyone should read this book in their lives at least once.

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monkeygirlsmama
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The first part of this book is backstory about how the author experienced and survived the Nazi death camps. The second part is about logotherapy, the idea of moving forward in life and having the mindset to do so in spite of the suffering one experienced previously. What an incredible, inspiring story! Even the technical bits at the end were even reasonably easy to follow. #audiobook

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WildAlaskaBibliophile
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I find this passage to be quite beautiful.

JuniperWilde I wish I could zoom in the read the passage. Does anyone know if we can expand images on Litsy? 6mo
WildAlaskaBibliophile @JuniperWilde Here is the text:
“The violin wept and a part of me wept with it, for on that same day someone had a twenty-fourth birthday. That someone lay in another part of the Auschwitz camp, possibly only a few hundred or a thousand yards away, and yet completely out of reach. That someone was my wife.“
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suvata
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4.5 Stars • "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl is a profound exploration of the human condition, inspired by Frankl's experiences in Nazi concentration camps. The book delves into the importance of finding meaning in life, even in the most dire circumstances. Frankl introduces his theory of logotherapy, which posits that the primary motivation for human beings is the search for meaning in life. ⬇️

suvata He argues that life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable ones, and that it is up to individuals to find this meaning. The book also discusses the three main sources of meaning: work, love, and suffering. It's a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit and a guide to finding purpose in life. 7mo
TheBookHippie I love this book. 7mo
suvata @TheBookHippie me too. I have a feeling I will be reading it more than once. 7mo
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WildAlaskaBibliophile I'm currently reading this! 7mo
TheBookHippie @suvata I‘ve read it three times. Probably time to read it again. 7mo
JamieArc I‘ve read it 3 times as well, and refer back to it often. Probably time to get it back out. 7mo
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JohnLAndBenji
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I also read this in high schoolThere is a lot of dark and triggering Holocaust history here, but it is still powerful and worth reading. Viktor describes his suffering and how it affected his psychology theories. One pf my favorite quotes was “One may only demand heroism from one person and that is one self.” He preaches that one powerful meaning in life is through love. He writes about his logotherapy and how it has affected his patients.

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I found this book of philosophy interesting. The story of the authors survival of the concentration camp was compelling and gave his theory of life much more weight. I am glad that I read this book.

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youneverarrived
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A book I‘ve wanted to read for a long time and I‘m glad it came up for me at this time as I‘m not sure I would have fully appreciated it had I read it when I was younger. Very well written, concise but powerful. A classic for good reason. It will stick with me. #nonfiction2023 - I Still Haven‘t Found What I‘m Looking For

Graywacke Oh, terrific to see this show up. I‘ve wanted to read this for years, but i‘m a touch intimidated. 12mo
youneverarrived @Graywacke I know what you mean! It‘s absolutely worth the read though. 12mo
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cottagebookgore94
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So goood.

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Chelseabillups30
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I‘ve needed this reminder over the first 10 months of 2023!!!

Velvetfur That's sorta kinda what a psychiatric nurse once told me (slightly different wording) and it really helps doesn't it?! ☺️ 1y
Chelseabillups30 @Velvetfur, yes! It helps put our humanity in perspective when we‘re going through our most difficult struggles within the human experience!! 1y
Velvetfur @Chelseabillups30 I love the way you put that 😊🩷 1y
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DieAReader
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#Wardens2023 #BookSpin (June) #ReadMyRoom #RushAThon #20in4

For sure a re-read later on & likely often.

Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 1y
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CoverToCoverGirl Awesome progress! You‘re way ahead of me on this challenge! 🧹🧹🧹👏👏 1y
DieAReader 🙅🏻‍♀️I‘m at 64/100 & you, young lady, are at 115/140 on GR. The spicy reads & DNFs don‘t count on my end so I‘m a bit behind still. 1y
DieAReader @Andrew65 TheAromaofBooks ☺️☺️☺️ 1y
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mruiz6
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Simply amazing! This book teaches so much.

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pr.alm
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A memoir broken down into two volumes. Part one is a vivid description of Frankl‘s life in several Nazi concentration camps, and part two, is a short introduction to Logotherapy: a therapeutic approach (developed by the author post-war) that aims to guide the patient to find his purpose by healing through meaning. 

TheBee Such an important book! 1y
pr.alm @TheBee 🙏🏼 Indeed it is.. It really put things in perspective! 1y
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DieAReader
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#Wardens2023 #ReadMyRoom #BookSpinBingo #MarchMadness #MarchMadnessReadathon

This one wasn‘t originally on tonight‘s pages but…life🤷🏻‍♀️I‘m just hoping it‘s not overly heavy. If I wait for the foggy🧠to behave, I‘ll never start this.

😥🧐🤞🏻🤿Here goes!

DieAReader Bought this at the same time. Hoping it isn‘t a needed start for tonight🤞🏻 2y
CoverToCoverGirl I have this one on my TBR shelves.. somewhere. It has great reviews. I anticipate your review. 🙂 2y
DieAReader @CoverToCoverGirl So, I bought the physical version so I could (theoretically) “mark it up” if I needed/wanted to but l, had NO plan of actually defacing it). I had to stop for tonight - I‘ve already highlighted with two different colours & I‘m only through the Foreword & the Preface😥🥺😳 That and I‘ll be compelled to stop read until the end of Part I - 97 pages is too much for my🧠tonight. (edited) 2y
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CoverToCoverGirl Starting fresh tomorrow is a good idea. I hope you have backup highlighters-in both colours- sounds like you may need them. 2y
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lynneamch
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Eggs ❤️ Frankl ❤️ 2y
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#gratitude @Eggs

Day 11
Grateful for Dr Frankl - I‘ve read this book several times - the epitome of gratitude inspiration

#SearchForMeaning #IndelibleMoments @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

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Nebklvr
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#shortyseptember. The first part is an autobiographical look at his time in concentration canps of WWII Germany and Poland. The second part looks at logotherapy as a psychological therapy. It lost me a few times but was still interesting.

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Santie
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I had questions going in, questions I hoped this book would answer. After reading it, I have more questions than answers. Which is good because it means the book is thought-provoking. It is softly brutal and brilliantly constructed. But it has a sense of ‘the answer lies within‘.

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Mdion1993
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Viktor E. Frankl discusses his time in Nazi concentration camps and how we can maintain spiritual survival in spite of our environments.

Logos ✨ Spiritual ✨Existential

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rmkwiat
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There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose. Page 20.

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mbzk
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"Typically, if a book has one passage, one idea with the power to change a person's life, that alone justifies reading it, rereading it, and finding room for it on one's shelves."

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JoJo13
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JenReadsAlot
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1. Tagged was the first one I thought of, but lots of nonfiction I'm sure.
2. Only time I celebrated was when I actually went to Ireland for St. Paddy's Day! Man that was 10 years ago already...
Thanks @Kshakal @TheSpineView #two4Tuesday

TheSpineView Time goes by quickly! Thanks for playing! 💚🍀 3y
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CarolinaDE
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Besides the heartbreaking description of his experience as a prisoner at Auschwitz's concentration camp, Viktor E Frankl gives a pretty solid description of logotherapy. It's a precious short book in my opinion.

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llcoolnate one of my favorites! 3y
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freeatlast1137
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Frankl dives deep into the meaning of life.

I had a tough time reading this book because I‘m not really a non-fiction reader, but he had some very good words of wisdom in regards to finding meaning in suffering.

Book 1 of 2022

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sakkineni
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While we were waiting for the shower, our nakedness was brought home to us; we really had nothing now except our bare bodies -….-, all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence.

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LinesUponAPage
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“there are things which cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose.‘ … The prisoner passed from the first to the second phase; the phase of relative apathy, in which he achieved a kind of emotional death..“

I feel like so many‘s emotional health is like this dealing with Covid-19. Apathy is a hard thing to lose yourself to. Dr. Frankl says the primary human drive is not the search for pleasure, but the search for meaningful in life.

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Lauren_Ho
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

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Lauren_Ho
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Not every conflict is necessarily neurotic; some amount of conflict is normal and healthy. In a similar sense suffering is not always a pathological phenomenon; rather than being a symptom of neurosis, suffering may well be a human achievement, especially if the suffering grows out of existential frustration.

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sakkineni
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Don‘t aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.

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sakkineni
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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

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Lauren_Ho
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Nietzsche's words, "He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how."

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Panpan

Frankl's personal story is compelling, but I'm not sure his theory is effective. Basically it's the idea that there is meaning to suffering and once a person finds that, then their suffering is eased. So, he says there is a correct way to suffer, and I'm not really into telling people how to process or endure their trauma. I also don't believe there is some greater purpose to being abused in some way. So ...

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I‘m having such a bummer month. August is always a tough one for me. I went online and found a bunch of books on finding meaning and how to find your life‘s passion and the first of the books came today 💫I heard this is a powerful one
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TiredLibrarian Loved this one. ❤ 3y
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Bookish.SAM
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Not at all what I expected, but this was enlightening. Listened to the #audio but am looking forward to getting my hands on a physical copy to read too.
This will be a book I return to.

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Lauren_Ho
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One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.

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Lauren_Ho
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Such people forgot that often it is just such an exceptionally difficult external situation which gives man the opportunity to grow spiritually beyond himself. Instead of taking the camp's difficulties as a test of their inner strength, they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequences. They preferred to close their eyes and to live in the past. Life for such people became meaningless.