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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Prisoners’ first response to the concentration camps was shock – starting with hope, and ending in despair.
Chapter 3: After several days in the camp, inmates sank into a numbing apathy, which allowed them to focus on survival alone.
Chapter 4: After liberation from the camps, life was often marked first by disbelief, and later by a deep bitterness.
Chapter 5: Prisoners focused on their inner lives to distract themselves from events unfolding in the real world.
Chapter 6: Most prisoners accepted their fate, yet some sought to make choices whenever they could.
Chapter 7: In logotherapy, our drive to act arises from the meaning of our lives.
Chapter 8: There is no universal meaning of life; each person’s life has its own specific meaning in each moment.
Chapter 9: You can control your fears by deliberately chasing them.
Description
Originally published in 1946, Man’s Search for Meaning details the harrowing experiences of author and psychologist Viktor Frankl during his internment in Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War. It offers insights into how human beings can survive unsurvivable situations, come to terms with trauma, and ultimately find meaning.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone interested in psychotherapy
- Anyone who wants to know how ordinary people cope with extraordinary situations
- Anyone trying to work out the meaning of life