Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of those he treated in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos ("meaning")-holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.
本書以作者的集中營經歷為本，揭示人類生命的動力在於尋出意義；人只要參透為何而活，即能承受任何煎熬；而無論處境如何，亦皆有自由抉擇的餘地。本書深入淺出，但振聾發聵人人可讀。自出版迄今，轟動全球，堪稱為研究人類心理學與精神不可不讀的一本經典之作。
本書中譯本《活出意義來》，由「光啟文化」出版。
At the time of Frankl's death in 1997, Man's Search for Meaning had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. A 1991 reader survey by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America.
Born in Vienna in 1905 Viktor E. Frankl earned an M.D. and a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna. He published more than thirty books on theoretical and clinical psychology and served as a visiting professor and lecturer at Harvard, Stanford, and elsewhere. In 1977 a fellow survivor, Joseph Fabry, founded the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy. Frankl died in 1997.
Harold S. Kushner is rabbi emeritus at Temple Israel in Natick, Massachusetts, and the author of several best-selling books, including When Bad Things Happen toGood People.
William J. Winslade is a philosopher, lawyer, and psychoanalyst at the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston.
作者簡介
弗蘭克（Viktor E. Frankl）
是一位精神官能學及精神分析學教授，以創作「意義治療法」聞名於世，對心理學界的影響及貢獻至深且鉅。納粹當政期間，曾被囚於集中營內，忍受種種非人待 遇而終獲生還，因而對存在的痛苦、挫折，及現代人特有的焦慮與空虛感，特別關注。其見解深銳而透徹，為心理學注入前輩諸大師所疏忽的人道精神，開創了心理學的新里程。
