Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

Written by Viktor E. Frankl

Narrated by Grover Gardner

Viktor Frankl is known to millions of listeners as a psychotherapist who has transcended his field in his search for answers to the ultimate questions of life, death, and suffering. Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning explores the sometimes unconscious basic human desire for inspiration or revelation and illustrates how life can offer profound meaning at every turn.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ascent Audio
• Release date: Feb 5, 2008
• ISBN: 9781596591837

Viktor E. Frankl

Viktor E. Frankl was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School. For twenty-five years he was head of the Vienna Neurological Policlinic. His Logotherapy/Existential Analysis came to be known as the “Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy.” He held professorships at Harvard, Stanford, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, and was Distinguished Professor of Logotherapy at the U.S. International University in San Diego, California. Born in 1905, Frankl received the degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Vienna. During World War II he spent three years at Auschwitz, Dachau, and other concentration camps. Through four decades Dr. Frankl made innumerable lecture tours throughout the world. He received honorary degrees from twenty-nine universities in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. He held numerous awards, among them the Oskar Pfister Award of the American Psychiatric Association and an Honorary Membership of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Frankl’s thirty-nine books appeared in forty-eight languages. His book Man’s Search for Meaning has sold millions of copies and has been listed among “the ten most influential books in America.” Viktor Frankl died 1997 in Vienna.

Reviews for Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

[Nabil Kania · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Exceptional book. Freud went over his head, but Freud basically goes over everyone’s head. It’s a very high level of psychology. Freud adler and Jung are deeper, but he is not far off. A very useful book for most ppl

[Jabari Banza Monga · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Perhaps the worst recording of this book… The voice is pretty good, but the pacing is just off.

[Fisehasion Tesfamariam · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It change my perspective . Thanks for the effort and hard work

[Yusdi Lastutiyanto · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Awesome and learn a lot from the audiobook. Thank you

[Chris Le · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Absolutely non sense. it is pseudo Analysis. Do not waste your time.

[madepercy-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I have only ever skirted around the fringes of psychology with Lewin, Maslow, Kotter et al., so reading Frankl required some frequent mini-research projects to catch up. Much food for thought, but I thought I was reading Man's Search for Meaning, but this is an updated work that combines a few of his other works. The concept of "existential vacuum" resonates, especially in the context of modern times. If humans are no longer driven by instincts or traditions, we no longer know what we must do or should do. This means humans do not even know what they wish to do. In concluding, Frankl offers his definition of religion, "paralleling" Einstein's and Wittgenstein's. This was very useful, but I find myself in Wittgenstein's camp, and so down the well I go.

[markberonte · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Viktor Frankl is known to millions as the author of "Man's Search for Meaning", his harrowing Holocaust memoir. In this book, he goes more deeply into the ways of thinking that enabled him to survive imprisonment in a concentration camp and to find meaning in life in spite of all the odds. Here, he expands upon his groundbreaking ideas and searches for answers about life, death, faith and suffering. Believing that there is much more to our existence than meets the eye, he says: 'No one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.' In "Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning", Frankl explores our sometimes unconscious desire for inspiration or revelation. He explains how we can create meaning for ourselves and, ultimately, he reveals how life has more to offer us than we could ever imagine.