The Will to Meaning
  • Published: 24 June 2014
  • ISBN: 9780142181263
  • Imprint: Plume
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $45.00
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The Will to Meaning

Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

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Described as "the most significant thinking since Freud and Adler," Viktor E. Frankl's The Will to Meaning collects his speeches on his groundbreaking school of logotherapy. This reissue will feature a new package.

From the author of Man's Search for Meaning, one of the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud.

Holocaust survivor Viktor E. Frankl is known as the founder of logotherapy, a mode of psychotherapy based on man's motivation to search for meaning in his life. The author discusses his ideas in the context of other prominent psychotherapies and describes the techniques he uses with his patients to combat the "existential vacuum." 

Originally published in 1969 and compiling Frankl's speeches on logotherapy, The Will to Meaning is regarded as a seminal work of meaning-centered therapy. This new and carefully re-edited version is the first since 1988.
  • Published: 24 June 2014
  • ISBN: 9780142181263
  • Imprint: Plume
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $45.00
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About the author

Viktor E Frankl

Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna in 1905 and was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School. His wife, father, mother and brother all died in Nazi concentration camps, only he and his sister survived, but he never lost the qualities of compassion, loyalty, undaunted spirit and thirst for life (earning his pilot's licence aged 67). He died in Vienna in 1997.

portrait photo of Viktor E Frankl

Also by Viktor E Frankl

Embracing Hope
Man's Search For Meaning
Yes To Life In Spite of Everything
Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning
The Doctor and the Soul
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Praise for The Will to Meaning

"Perhaps the most significant thinking since Freud and Adler."
The American Journal of Psychiatry

"Frankl is one of the most famous and gifted of all psychiatrists... The incredible attempts to dehumanize man at Auschwitz and Dachau led Frankl to commence the humanization of psychiatry through logotherapy. Frankl is a professional who possesses the rare ability to write in a layman's language."
Dr. Gerald F. Kreyche, Chairman

"I regard this book as one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years."
Dr. Carl Rogers

"Dr. Frankl's contribution to psychotherapy has been great. He is perhaps the only non-behaviorist to have contributed a method to behavior therapy. The modesty with which he has put forward his important work has been remarkable."
Dr. Joseph Wolpe