Man's Search for Meaning

Viennese psychiatrist Viktor Frankl spent three years in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Dachau. In the midst of unimaginable horror and degradation, Frankl observed that prisoners who kept alive a vision of purpose or love were far more likely to endure.

Divided into two parts—a vivid personal memoir followed by an overview of Logotherapy—the book posits that man's primary motivational drive is not pleasure or power, but the pursuit of meaning.