In this work, a Viennese psychiatrist tells his grim experiences in a German concentration camp which led him to logotherapy, an existential method of psychiatry. This work has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 the author, a psychiatrist labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished....

Pattakos applies Frankl's philosophy and therapeutic approach to life and work in the 21st century. This updated and expanded second edition includes new personal stories, new data on meaning, and new exercises to apply the seven principles.

Frankl's seminal work was in manuscript form when he was arrested and deported to Auschwitz in 1942. During his imprisonment, he recreated and supplemented his theories, and it became the foundation of Man's search for meaning, written in nine days after his liberation. Eleven months later Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna. Those lectures are published here in English for the first time. -- adapted from jacket