№ 03 · 1946
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor Frankl was a Viennese psychiatrist who spent three years in Nazi concentration camps. The first half of this book is his account of survival; the second is the framework he built from it — logotherapy — which holds that meaning, not pleasure or power, is the central human pursuit. The book is short, plainly written, and unsparing. It has not lost any of its weight in the eighty years since it was first published.
Why I recommend this one
Some books survive because they capture a moment. This one survives because it captures something that doesn't change: the way meaning anchors us when nothing else can. I return to it about once a year and find different things in it each time.
— Jeffrey Farber, MSW, LCSW
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