Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E Frankl [Hardcover]

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that the men who comforted others and gave away their last piece of bread survived the longest - and offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given circumstance.

The sort of person the prisoner became resulted from an inner decision and not camp influences alone. Only those who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influence - while those who made a victory of those experiences turned them into an inner triumph.

Frankl came to believe that 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.