Wednesday, March 27, 2013

the meaning of life, other than 42.


This book is beautiful. No really. Look at those clouds. But that's just my copy (and pretty much all other copies of the book look boring with a picture of Viktor E. Frankl wearing glasses and contemplating life). This is a book about a German psychiatrist who went through the concentration camp during WWII. I have read this book and I absolutely love it! Unlike the Diary Of Anne Frank, Viktor's story is not, as he puts it, "another horror story". The first half of the book describes his experiences in the concentration camps. He tells about helping patients in the camp hospitals and their way of thinking that caused them sickness. He focuses on what's going on with the prisoner's mental experiences. And for the second half of the book he introduces Logotherapy, a therapy which he developed. But really, if you need some help with figuring out your meaning in life, here it is.


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