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Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy by Viktor E. Frankl

64 reviews

ravenph's review against another edition

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5.0

Being a good person is hard, but I would never say that it isn’t worth it. I have my shortcomings and trepidations towards others. I find it difficult sometimes to give them grace and kindness when I find it easy to do to others. This book helped me realize that I have the capacity to change for the better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness and War

Moderate: Violence and Antisemitism

abbyluvsfrogs444's review against another edition

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5.0

Oh wow. I have so many words to say about this book but I don't know where to start. I'm blown away by Frankl and his insights. I can't even imagine going through something like he did and coming out of it with a renewed hope and joy in life. I don't know how he did it. All I know is this, the meaning of life is purely individual and personal for each person. My reason is different than another's reason. But, life does have meaning. It always does. And Frankl does an excellent job at drilling that into our minds. And if a Holocaust survivor says it's true, then I believe it. I finished this book with renewed hope. Hope is so rare in today's world, but I found it in Frankl's words. I love this book. It should be required reading for everyone. So fantastic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, and War

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Medical content

lindsayvale's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Grief, and War

jataraxia's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Suicide attempt, Murder, War, and Deportation

Moderate: Child death and Deportation

Minor: Excrement and Cannibalism

elizlizabeth's review against another edition

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2.5

Lo leí para una clase de la uni. Los principios de la logoterapia, así como del psicoanálisis, me parecen cuestionables; como memoria está muy bien escrita.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Slavery, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Genocide

jayvdw's review against another edition

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4.5

This book is split into a few parts. I only read the first part of the book: Experiences in a Concentration Camp. This is the original book that Frankl wrote. Later on, other parts of the book about logotherapy were added. I read a bit from these parts but it was personally of no interest to me to read about it. But since I am rating the whole book and I was only interested in half of the book, I deduced 0.25 from my rating. 

The first part was a unique experience to read. It was written as a combination of a narrative and a psychological analysis of this narrative. Frankl wrote about his own experiences in the different Concentration camps and what he did to mentally survive. The book teaches the reader a lot about life in a concentration camp and how it was organized from the prisoner's perspective. 

The book is also full of great quotes from other people. My personal favorites were:
The story about the death in Teheran. A short story that highlights that people should let fate run its course. 

It did not really matter what we expected of life, but rather what life expected from us. 
What you have experienced, no power on earth can take away from you.

I have visited the Dachau concentration camp, the camp where Frankl was liberated from. This made reading the book a bit extra special, since I was aware of how to camp looked and I have walked around it myself. This also made me rethink my visit and the next time I will visit a concentration camp, I am sure to have this book in the back of my mind. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Genocide, Hate crime, Antisemitism, and Deportation

Moderate: Death, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: War

chemeducator's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, and Antisemitism

babydee's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Genocide, Hate crime, Suicide, Torture, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and War

kalyaniwarrier's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

4.25

Explains in extent about the practice of logo-therapy in psychology that allowed ones thrown in concentration camps to hope for better. 

The narrative of this autobiography comes from a psychiatric perspective on the entrapment of the innocent victims due to their difference in ideology. Interesting and eye-opening read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Genocide, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, and Deportation

catherineelms's review against another edition

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5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, Xenophobia, and Antisemitism