Kindle Price:	$18.99
	Price includes tax, if applicable
Sold by:	PRH UK This price was set by the publisher.

You've subscribed to ! We will pre-order your items within 24 hours of when they become available. When new books are released, we'll charge your default payment method for the lowest price available during the pre-order period.

Update your device or payment method, cancel individual pre-orders or your subscription at
Your memberships & subscriptions

There was an error! We were unable to process your subscription due to an error. Please refresh and try again.

Follow the author

Viktor E. Frankl

Follow

Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust Kindle Edition

by Viktor E Frankl (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.4 85,838 ratings

in Psychology of Personalities

See all formats and editions

Sorry, there was a problem loading this page.Try again.

Over 16 million copies sold worldwide

'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek

One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives.

Print length

229 pages
Language

English
Sticky notes

On Kindle Scribe
Publisher

Ebury Digital
Publication date

9 December 2013
File size

2697 KB
Page Flip

Enabled
Word Wise

Enabled
Enhanced typesetting

Enabled
See all details

Report an issue with this product

1 offer from $1899
Viktor E. Frankl
430
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $1899
Viktor E Frankl
2,406
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $1399
Pam Roy
58
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $1199
Paulo Coelho
146,225
Kindle Edition
in Christian Historical Fiction
1 offer from $1499
Dalai Lama
1,311
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $1899
Edith Eger
29,244
Kindle Edition

Popular Highlights in this book

What are popular highlights?

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.
Highlighted by 51,201 Kindle readers
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
Highlighted by 47,203 Kindle readers
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
Highlighted by 45,809 Kindle readers

From the Publisher

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances.

The sort of person the concentration camp prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone. Frankl came to believe man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.

Product description

Review

An enduring work of survival literature. ― New York Times

A book to read, to cherish, to debate, and one that will ultimately keep the memories of the victims alive -- John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

I have loved this book for so many years, and I think every human being should read it. -- Simon Sinek

Viktor Frankl...one of the moral heroes of the 20th century. His insights into human freedom, dignity and the search for meaning are deeply humanizing, and have the power to transform lives. His works are essential reading for those who seek to understand the human condition. Published On: 2003-10-01

Remarkable...It changed my life and became a part of all that I live and all that I teach. Published On: 2003-10-01

About the Author

Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. He was the founder of logotherapy and existential analysis. He published more than thirty books, lectured and taught seminars all over the world, and received twenty-nine honorary doctorate degrees.

Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over forty Earphones Awards. He has won thirteen prestigious Audie Awards and was Booklist's very first Voice of Choice in 2008. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00EKOC0HI
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ebury Digital; New e. edition (9 December 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2697 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 229 pages

Best Sellers Rank: 4,578 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 1 in Psychology of Personalities
- 5 in Holocaust History
- 6 in Jewish Holocaust History

Customer Reviews:
4.4 85,838 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Viktor E. Frankl

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Viktor E. Frankl was professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School until his death in 1997. He was the founder of what has come to be called the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy (after Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's individual psychology)—the school of logotherapy.

Born in 1905, Dr. Frankl received the degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Vienna. During World War II he spent three years at Auschwitz, Dachau and other concentration camps.

Dr. Frankl first published in 1924 in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and has since published twenty-six books, which have been translated into nineteen languages, including Japanese and Chinese. He was a visiting professor at Harvard, Duquesne, and Southern Methodist Universities. Honorary Degrees have been conferred upon him by Loyola University in Chicago, Edgecliff College, Rockford College, and Mount Mary College, as well as by universities in Brazil and Venezuela. He was a guest lecturer at universities throughout the world and made fifty-one lecture tours throughout the United States alone. He was President of the Austrian Medical Society of Psychotherapy.

Customer reviews

4.4 out of 5

85,838 global ratings

Zero tolerance for fake reviews

Review this product

Write a customer review

Reviews with images

See all photos

Sort reviews by

Top reviews from Australia

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Shelley

Insight

Reviewed in Australia on 1 May 2024

Verified Purchase

Wow what people endure, how they react and how things change. This journal of Viktor’s was truly eye opening and inspiring. Great read.

Reviewed in Australia on 19 May 2024

Verified Purchase

Insightful and informative for living the best life you can. A little outdated in language and concepts.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Vaso

Book

Reviewed in Australia on 16 April 2024

Verified Purchase

Book is perfect

Helpful

99Albert

Struggle makes you stronger only if you let it.

Reviewed in Australia on 27 April 2024

Verified Purchase

In this life we will have tribulations. Victimhood is prison constructed by our own immature child egos demanding what will eventually destroy us. Tough circumstances, not of our own making, force us to either throw tantrums or embrace those trials and be transformed by them.
Just as the struggle of the butterfly to leave the chrysalis fills its wing struts so it can fly, so the struggle we endure to exit the birth canal sets us up for the life ahead. Caesareans might be essential to save the mother’s life, but too many are performed for sake of the mother’s convenience. The developed world has cotton wooled us too much, we seek out immediate quick fixes and we have become unprepared to deal with the realities of life. Despite that, everyday life in the developed world is still full of stresses we cannot escape and need to deal with. However, imagine the shock we would experience, if we were suddenly arrested and thrown in a jail because our faith, ethnicity, or political views. Maybe we are wrongfully accused or even vindictively set up. This is extreme, but for millions in the last hundred or so years, this was exactly what happened and is still happening to people in most of the world. This is exactly what happened to the respected Austrian doctor, Victor Frankl.
How would you survive? Surviving a concentration/death camp or gulag would be determined by our willingness to embrace the struggle. Surprisingly, caring for others increases our chances at survival. He discovered in practice that giving is always more powerful than taking, and receiving a gift blesses both parties. Survival takes more than our personal strength and egotists fail and die. Grace is received by faith and giving to others, even our time, increases our faith and may save their lives.
There are also surprising miracles dispensed to us because we trust in God for the outcome. These we should savour and enjoy. We may in the end still die for our faith, but isn’t that better than living in the darkness enclosed by our selfish egotism? We can be formed and reformed by our circumstances or destroyed by them. To succeed also requires surrendering our self-reliance and receiving grace and forgiveness from the One who lay down everything to save us.

Reviewed in Australia on 19 May 2024

Verified Purchase

I found it a difficult read because of what was described and the language explaining logotherapy was not the clearest to comprehend.

Helpful

Ross McDougall

pound-for-pound one of the best books available

Reviewed in Australia on 30 April 2017

Verified Purchase

What a spectacular gift Frankl has given society in this book. A truly heartbreaking account of time in various SS camps, the journey the author took is just as jaw-dropping as the place he found himself at the end.

Man's Search For Meaning is an excellent perspective-checker, an excellent first-hand account of how horrible people can be to each other, a tribute to the human ability to make sense of the suffering and pain one endures, and a poignant insight into the psychology that kept some prisoners alive in Auschwitz while others perished.

I was continually struck with the way Frankl beautifully weaves discussion of psychology and the ways in which people respond to shocking circumstances into the description of the realities facing the prisoners in the Nazi death camps. The book is an ongoing push-pull between feeling utterly sick reading the occurrences in the camp and inspired by the positions taken by some prisoners, as well as the beauty that sporadically managed to shine into the camp. Hope is one of the most powerful forces available to humanity, and it energised the prisoners as no bread or water could.

The new addition of a discussion of Logotherapy is very helpful for application into one's own life today, and much of Frankl's explanation of it seems logical and with merit. It's a testament to the quality of the writer that both halves of the book are equally enthralling to read and ingest.

I feel I may need to put this into a rotation to allow the concepts to sink deeper. I wish more people wrote with grace and beauty like Frankl; He shows beauty in the midst of terror and maintains an objective perspective like nobody else I've read. A story of Frankl speaking to the other prisoners and encouraging them to find hope and see the positives of their imprisonment is one of the finest things I've read.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Olivia O

Theory brought to life

Reviewed in Australia on 7 April 2022

Verified Purchase

I studied psychology, and found it continually frustrating to learn about psychological theories in absence of real examples and applied context. This book fills that gap perfectly, despite the real example being one so horrific and unspeakable that it is at times deeply troubling to digest. Frankl is an optimist, and this shines through, in a compelling, thoughtful and convincing way. His observations on human nature and our reasons for being gave me hope, and even clarity on my own search for meaning.

Helpful

Robert

Incredible story for everyone

Reviewed in Australia on 16 October 2023

Verified Purchase

This book gives an enormous insight into the human psychological condition, it's the most practical book on, simply, how to think better.

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Translate all reviews to English

Amazon Customer

fantastic

Reviewed in the United States on 17 April 2024

Verified Purchase

Really enjoyed reading this very insightful book. One cannot even comprehend in the slightest what the prisoners of Aushwitz endured on a daily basis yet Mr Frankl rose above and against all odds to shine his light even in the very darkest of dark times in history….. his ideas and theories make perfect sense and a true inspiration to try a new approach to the days ahead- thank you Mr Frankl wherever you might be

8 people found this helpful

Coket

Great read to ponder.

Reviewed in Canada on 13 April 2024

Verified Purchase

It’s a good read if you want something to really think about.

Rodrigo M.

Uma das melhores leituras que fiz

Reviewed in Brazil on 2 March 2023

Verified Purchase

Esse livro me ajudou muito a colocar meus problemas em perspectiva, tornando-me mais grato por tudo que tenho na vida.

O momento do livro que ele está dormindo no meio de outros em um degrau me marcou bastantes. Todos os dias tenho o luxo de dormir na minha cama. Às vezes tenho dificuldades para dormir e agora sempre vem a minha cabeça que sou extremamente privilegiado e que as coisas poderiam estar muito piores.

Esse é um exemplo simples de aplicação prática do livro, mas para mim foi muito marcante em vários aspectos.

6 people found this helpful

Translate review to English

Kriss.

Molto resistente nel tempo..!

Reviewed in Italy on 26 May 2024

Verified Purchase

Già recensito tempo fa...... Adoperato x moto pesante(vecchia harley!) molte volte, e prestato ad amici... Ancora perfetto, nessun lasco o cedimento.... OK!!! 👍

Translate review to English

Tushar Kulkarni

Best edition and very beautiful

Reviewed in India on 24 May 2024

Verified Purchase

Before buying this edition I had three copies of this book: two English paperbacks and one Marathi translation. I’ve read this book three times. I love it so much that I decided to buy a beautiful edition.

But when I saw this edition on Amazon then I felt this is the I am looking for. Thus hardcover edition available in peacock green, which is very beautiful. If you are a true fan of the book, you would love to have this edition.

For those who want to buy this book for its content, let me tell you a few words about it.

This book is by the well-known psychologist Viktor Frankl, who was in a Nazi concentration camp. There, he realized that people who live longer are those who have hope in their lives. They have a sense of meaning that helps them survive any condition.

This approach led Frankl to propose a therapy known as logotherapy, which focuses on the meaning of life. Logotherapy helps people find meaning in their lives and makes their existence worthwhile.

You will find many valuable insights in this book, but the most important takeaway is the realization of the attitude one must possess in times of turbulence.

Enjoy your reading.

Image Unavailable

Follow the author

Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust Kindle Edition

Customers who read this book also read

From the Publisher

Product description

Review

About the Author

Product details

About the author

Viktor E. Frankl

Customer reviews

Review this product

Reviews with images

Top reviews from Australia

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries

Report an issue