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This book is intense. Frankl, a psychiatrist, describes his experiences in concentration camps in Nazi Germany. The book tells how he maintained his sense of meaning, and helped others discover that they still had their own, to make it through the tragedies of starvation, death and uncertain futures. The main message is there is not one meaning to life, but each of us have our own meanings, and where there is a why, there is a how to survive.

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.

It was perfect guidance for life way

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

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

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

I find this passage to be quite beautiful.

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. ⬇️

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.

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.

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

So goood.

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

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

Simply amazing! This book teaches so much.

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. 

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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!

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

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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.

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‘.

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

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

"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."

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...
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It's time to read this masterpiece 🐦
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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.

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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.

“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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 ...

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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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.