Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (Book review)
The book Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl is psychological non-fiction that examines spiritual survival, introduces logotherapy, and plays the role of the author’s memoir, describing life in the Nazis’ concentration camps. The book has gone through several rewrites and had been re-published four times. This reflection is based on the fourth edition of the book. Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997) was a neurologist, psychiatrist, and the founder of logotherapy, the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy. He is a Holocaust survivor and one of the key figures in existential therapy. He is also the author of several books about the meaning of life and his practices in logotherapy. In general, I found the writing style of the author very capturing and precise. He uses a lot of technical terms, most of which I had not heard before, but manages to explain them with simple words, combined with examples from everyday life. He uses comparisons that bring a clearer picture in the reader’s ...