“victor e frankl”

Frankl explores the sometimes unconscious human desire for inspiration or revelation, and illustrates how life can offer profound meaning at every turn.Viktor Frankl is known to millions of readers as a psychotherapist who has transcended his field in his search for answers to the ultimate questions... More

Man's Search For Meaning is undoubtedly one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from the Second World War: a moving account of Viktor Frankl's experiences in Auschwitz and what we can learn from them. Now in its 74th edition, it has been A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Vi... More

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - a... More

Frankl discusses logotherapy--man's motivation to search for meaning in his life--in the context of other prominent psychotherapies and describes the techniques he uses with his patients to combat the "existential vacuum". 11 line drawings.... More

Aphids are well-known as pests of agriculture, horticulture and forestry, but they are also one of the most biologically interesting groups of plant-feeding insects, and thus have attracted the attention of biologists in many research fields such as ecology, biodiversity, physiology, behaviour and g... More

A veteran lawyer recounts the compelling story of his first pro-bono assigment, a years-long battle within the United States legal system centering around a nightmarish chain of events involving love, murder, and imprisonment that turned one man's world upside down and inside out.... More

Author Victor Estrella has put together a collection of stories describing actual life events, from memories burned in during his childhood to his experiences as a mature adult. Some of these experiences may be easily explainable, while others are a little harder to rationalize. Most curious is the ... More