Man’s Search For Meaning

基本信息

作者： Viktor E. Frankl

出版社：Beacon Press

出版日期：2019/04/23

语言：英文

ISBN：9780807092156

规格：平装 / 184页 / 10.8 x 17.1 x 1.2 cm

书籍简介

本书以作者的集中营经历为本，揭示人类生命的动力在于寻出意义；人只要参透为何而活，即能承受任何煎熬；而无论处境如何，亦皆有自由抉择的馀地。本书深入浅出，但振聋发聩人人可读。自出版迄今，轰动全球，堪称为研究人类心理学与精神不可不读的一本经典之作。

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

When Man's Search for Meaning was first published in 1959, it was hailed by Carl Rogers as "one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years." Now, more than forty years and 4 million copies later, this tribute to hope in the face of unimaginable loss has emerged as a true classic. Man's Search for Meaning--at once a memoir, a self-help book, and a psychology manual-is the story of psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's struggle for survival during his three years in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Yet rather than "a tale concerned with the great horrors," Frankl focuses in on the "hard fight for existence" waged by "the great army of unknown and unrecorded."

Viktor Frankl's training as a psychiatrist allowed him a remarkable perspective on the psychology of survival. In these inspired pages, he asserts that the "the will to meaning" is the basic motivation for human life. This simple and yet profound statement became the basis of his psychological theory, logotherapy, and forever changed the way we understand our humanity in the face of suffering. As Nietzsche put it, "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." Frankl's seminal work offers us all an avenue to greater meaning and purpose in our own lives-a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the act of living. 

作者简介

维克多·弗兰克（Viktor Emil Frankl，1905年3月26日－1997年9月2日）是一位奥地利神经学家、精神病学家，维也纳第三代心理治疗学派 - 意义治疗与存在主义分析（Existential Psychoanalysis）的创办人。出生于奥地利维也纳一个贫穷的犹太家庭，犹太人大屠杀倖存者。1997年9月2日因心脏衰竭逝于维也纳。