"Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor E. Frankl, was moving and riveting.
It tells his story from not only a survivor's perspective of a Nazi death camp, but also as a psychologist.
It attempts to go into how certain people gave up and other's persisted, with respect to their own "will to live".
Frankl offers many positive methods of thought that he exercised while a prison and how he would cope with the daily evils of the camps.
He also argues that man cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it.
The second half of the book goes into "Logotherapy", Frankl's own creation to help people find and assess the meaning in their lives. "Logo" is Greek for "meaning", so it can be thought of as "meaning therapy". At the heart of logotherapy, is a conviction that the primary human drive is not pleasure but the pursuit of what we find meaningful.
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The book can be bought at Barnes and Noble for less than $10 dollars, it is a must read!
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