This volume presents the major papers of Dr. Viktor E. Franki, internationally famous psychiatrist, author of Man's Search for Meaning, and originator of logotherapy-an existential psychotherapy stressing man's freedom to transcend suffering and find meaning in his life.Drawing on his broad clinical background and on his personal experiences as a prisoner in the concentration camps of Dachau and Auschwitz, Dr. Frankl offers man a vital and humanistic outlook for his daily experiences-his joys and his suffering, his guilt and his aspira-tions. A philosophy reflecting an enlightened concern for modern man, logotherapy has been hailed as the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy, the most significant contribution to psychoanalysis since the work of Freud and Adler."Unlike many European existential-ists, Frankl is neither pessimistic nor anti-religious. On the contrary, for a writer who faces fully the ubiquity of suffering and the forces of evil, he takes a surprisingly hopeful view of man's capacity to transcend his predicament and discover an adequate guiding truth."-PROFESSOR GORDON ALLPORT, Harvard University --- Book back

In The Feeling of Meaninglessness, Viktor Frankl, the founder of logotherapy, a psychotherapeutic method which focus on a will to meaning as the driving force of human life, takes a look at how the modern condition affects the human search for meaning. In this series of articles and essays, he discusses how many people suffer from pervasive feelings of meaninglessness in their lives, despite the great material comforts of industrial society. He attributes this sense of meaninglessness to a neglect of our existential needs and offers practical insights and guidelines for how to overcome this meaninglessness and regain mental health through engagement with our existential needs and selves.