Rediscovery of the Human

Viktor E. Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning sold over 10 million copies and was translated into over 30 languages. It was deemed by a survey of the Library of Congress to be one of "the ten most influential books in America". This volume introduces and presents translations of a number of important but less well-known writings by Viktor Frankl, translated from the original German, in which he forthrightly relates psychology to religious concepts. These cast a strong new light on the generally received understanding of Frankl's contribution to psychology 'logotherapy' as well as its relationship to the soul and universal ethics.ABOUT THE AUTHORS:Rabbi Dr Shimon Cowen, son of a former Governor-General of Australia, Sir Zelman Cowen OBM, has a dual background in secular and religious studies. Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl is famous for his celebrated 1946 memoir Man's Search for Meaning an examination on what the gruesome experience of Auschwitz taught him about the primary purpose of life: the quest for meaning, which sustained those who survived, and is still a vital tool in psychological practice.

ISBN: 9781925736656
Author: Cowen, Shimon; Frankl, Viktor E
Publication date: 11/02/2021
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Dimension: 233mm X 155mm