New Releases by Viktor E. Frankl

A highly anticipated, rediscovered collection from Viktor Frankl, published for the first time in the United States, exploring freedom, responsibility, and how we can draw meaning from the temporary nature of our lives From the bestselling author of Man''s Search for Meaning, which has sold over 18 million copies The Library of Congress lists Man’s Search for Meaning as one of the ten most influential books in history. Scientists and artists, politicians and celebrities regularly cite Frankl as one of the most important authors every person should read. Now, there is another book for his devoted fans to add to their collections. Published here for the first time in the United States, Embracing Hope continues Frankl’s enduring life’s work and provides even more lessons for those searching for meaning and purpose. It’s made up of four distinct pieces from Frankl on different themes - all uniting around the idea that we should remain open to life even when we have been subjected to appalling injustice, and even when we are faced with our own mortality and the brief nature of our lives. At a time of global suffering where so many are searching for hope and meaning, Frankl’s work seems more relevant and more important than ever. Whether you''re a devoted follower of Frankl''s work or a newcomer seeking to enrich your understanding of life''s purpose, this book promises a captivating journey that will leave you pondering its teachings long after you''ve turned the final page. Just imagine what would happen, what life would look like, if there were no death. Imagine what it would be like if you could postpone anything and everything, if you could put it off for eternity. You wouldn''t have to do anything today or tomorrow. Everything could just as easily be done next week, next month, next year, in a decade, in 100 or 1,000 years. Only in the face of death, only under pressure from the finiteness, the temporal limitation of human existence, is there any point in going about our business, and not only in going about our business, but in experiencing life, and not only in experiencing life but also in loving someone, and even in enduring and surviving something that is inflicted on us.

Tra il 1951 e il 1955 Viktor Frankl fu invitato da un''emittente radiofonica viennese a tenere una conversazione mensile su problemi di ordine psicoterapeutico. Ciò che si proponeva non era tanto il «discutere» di psicoterapia quanto piuttosto il «fare» della psicoterapia attraverso il microfono, utilizzando la radio come mezzo capace di contrastare la nevrosi collettiva. Spinto anche dall''enorme successo delle trasmissioni e dalle lettere ricevute dagli ascoltatori, decise poi di raccogliere i testi di quelle conversazioni, ampliati e annotati. Anche se ogni conversazione affronta - con lo stile fresco e diretto proprio della lingua parlata - un argomento a sé, le intersezioni sono inevitabili e ciò che si delinea alla fine è un pensiero coerente basato sulla resilienza, sull''abbracciare la vita anche davanti alle più grandi avversità, e soprattutto sulla ricerca di senso, che diventa un potente strumento terapeutico. Ciò che dobbiamo indagare non sono infatti i motivi all''origine di quel vuoto esistenziale da cui sembriamo sempre più afflitti, ma gli scopi con cui possiamo colmare quel vuoto.

This Classic Edition of On the Theory and Therapy of Mental Disorders: An Introduction to Logotherapy and Existential Analysis sees Viktor E. Frankl, bestselling author and founder of logotherapy, introduce his key theories and apply them to work with patients exhibiting symptoms of neurosis. James M. DuBois’ translation of Frankl’s Theorie und Therapie der Neurosen allows English readers to experience this essential text on logotherapy in an invigorating new light. DuBois also provides a new Preface to the book, highlighting the importance of both the original volume and Frankl’s work at large, and framing it within contemporary psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Throughout the book, Frankl uses his unique logotherapeutic approach to analyse neuroses and their impact. He looks in turn at how neuroses may be informed by psychoses, somatic disorders, and the mental implications of being diagnosed with a physical medical condition, as well as potential psychological, spiritual, and societal causes of neuroses. Masterfully translated and thoroughly annotated, this volume brings Frankl’s trailblazing theories into the 21st century and will be of great interest to psychiatrists and psychotherapists alike.

Ein Interdisziplinärer Dialog über Fragen der Sinnstiftung für das menschliche Leben - Ein lange verschollenes Dokument einer spannenden Begegnung - Zum 100. Geburtstag von Viktor E. Frankl am 5. März 2005 Der Psychotherapeut V. E. Frankl und der jüdische Theologe P. Lapide gestalteten 1984 in Wien einen interdisziplinären Dialog über Heil und Heilung des Menschen, der bislang unveröffentlicht blieb. Der besondere Reiz dieses Bandes liegt in dem Bestreben der beiden Autoren, sich ganz für die Perspektive der jeweils anderen Disziplin zu öffnen und ihr Wissen ausschließlich in den Dienst der Suche nach Wahrheit zu stellen. Dabei begegnen sich die beiden praktizierenden Juden immer wieder auf dem Boden ihrer persönlichen religiösen Erfahrung und in Bezug auf prägende, lebensgeschichtliche Ereignisse wie dem Holocaust. Fundamentale, existentielle Fragestellungen wie Leid und Schuld aber auch Liebe und Lebenssinn kommen hier in beeindruckender Tiefe zur Sprache.

Poate fi refulată religiozitatea? Poate fi ascunsă de Eul conștient? Dimensiunii pulsionale a inconștientului Viktor E. Frankl îi adaugă dimensiunea spirituală, conștiința morală. Dumnezeul neștiut are la bază o conferință pe care a susținut-o în fața unui grup restrâns de persoane, la puțin timp după Al Doilea Război Mondial, căreia i s-au adăugat câteva materiale relevante pentru temele esențiale aduse în discuție – relația dintre psihoterapie și teologie. Sunt abordate aici și unele chestiuni legate de tehnica logoterapiei, interpretarea viselor, conceptualizarea „voinței de sens", precum și de problema sentimentului lipsei de sens, aspect devenit tot mai predominant în prezent. Cititorul interesat de psihologia înălțimilor care se concentrează pe acest fenomen atât de specific omului, nevoia de sens, îl va putea urmări pe Frankl în demersul său terapeutic de a ajuta pacienții să descopere sensul și să transforme durerea și suferința într-un lucru pozitiv. Viktor E. Frankl a fost profesor de psihiatrie la Universitatea din Viena. Pornind de la experiența de trei ani de detenție în lagărele de concentrare naziste, printre care Auschwitz și Dachau, a fondat logoterapia, o metodă de tratament bazată pe motivația omului de a găsi un sens în viața sa. Dintre cărțile lui, la Editura Trei a fost publicată Voința de sens. Fundamente și aplicații ale logoterapiei.

Nel marzo del 1946, appena undici mesi dopo essere stato liberato dai campi di concentramento nazisti, Viktor E. Frankl tenne una serie di conferenze per l''università popolare di Ottakring, a Vienna. Il testo di quelle lezioni fu pubblicato da un piccolo editore in un volume andato presto esaurito e qui tradotto in italiano per la prima volta. Sopravvissuto all''indicibile orrore dell''Olocausto, che gli aveva portato via i genitori e la moglie incinta, pur nell''estrema sofferenza, Frankl ribadisce in queste pagine la sua convinzione che è sempre possibile "dire sì alla vita". L''importante è darle un senso: con l''azione, con l''amore, con il nostro atteggiamento anche nelle situazioni più dolorose. Perché se non possiamo cambiare il destino, possiamo almeno accettarlo e farne un''occasione di crescita interiore. In un mondo che ha conosciuto la pandemia, l''isolamento sociale, la guerra e una grande incertezza economica, le sue parole sulla resilienza risuonano oggi più attuali che mai.

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Nos anos 30, com o aumento em massa de suicídios entre os jovens universitários em Viena, um jovem psiquiatra austríaco propôs uma terapia inovadora: ajudar os estudantes a encontrar um sentido para a vida. Nascia assim a Logoterapia, que o autor comprovou de forma terrível no campo de concentração de Auschwitz: os prisioneiros que sobreviviam não eram os mais fortes fisicamente, mas aqueles que vislumbravam um sentido para a existência. Viktor E. Frankl, que relataria a sua experiência no livro O Homem em Busca de um Sentido, assistiu no pós-guerra ao crescimento económico da Europa e previu que, à medida que as pessoas vissem as suas necessidades básicas satisfeitas, começariam a esquecer-se do sentido da vida, e que isso acabaria por levar a um enorme vazio existencial. Neste livro (textos de 1947 a 1977) o autor vem contrariar esse vazio reafirmando os valores humanistas que se foram perdendo. O autor procura (re)encontrar o que temos de mais humano em diferentes expressões da cultura humana. Percorre a filosofia, a moralidade, mas também temas fulcrais para a psicologia , como o sexo ou a literatura, à procura daquilo que faz de nós humanos. A Voz que Grita por um Sentido quer devolver um rosto humano à psiquiatria e evidenciar o que cada um de nós tem de único e individual. E reforça a crença do autor de que num mundo confuso, só em nós próprios encontraremos um farol e um rumo para a vida.

In this work, a Viennese psychiatrist tells his grim experiences in a German concentration camp which led him to logotherapy, an existential method of psychiatry. This work has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 the author, a psychiatrist labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the stories of his many patients, he 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. His 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.

Viktor Frankl, der später als Arzt und Psychologe weltberühmt werden sollte, zeigt die Quellen auf, die unserem Leben Sinn spenden können, selbst nach schmerzhaften Erlebnissen: zum Beispiel das tätige Handeln, die Zuwendung zu anderen Menschen und das bewusste Erleben schöner Eindrücke in Natur und Kunst. Nur elf Monate nach seiner Befreiung aus dem Konzentrationslager hielt Frankl im März 1946 die drei hier abgedruckten Vorträge, die seine zentralen Gedanken zu Lebenssinn und Resilienz wiedergeben. Menschsein bedeutet für Viktor Frankl in jeder Lebenslage Auch-anders-Können. Eindringliche Belege dafür sind seine eigenen schmerzhaften Erfahrungen von Verlust, Hunger und Todesangst, die dennoch Hoffnung, Freundschaft und Sinnerfahrung zuließen. "Wenn das Leben einen Sinn hat, dann muss auch das Leiden einen Sinn haben", das war die Maxime des großen Arztes und Psychotherapeuten. Seine Schriften sind berührende Zeitdokumente und zugleich hochaktuell: Sie geben wichtige Impulse für die eigene Lebensgestaltung, zum Weiterleben auch nach traumatischen Erfahrungen. Jede Krise birgt auch eine Chance - nämlich die eigene Menschlichkeit unter Beweis zu stellen.

Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning sold over 10 million copies and was translated into over 30 languages and was deemed by a survey of the Library of Congress one of “the ten most influential books in America”. This volume introduces and presents translations of a number of important but less well-known writings by Viktor Frankl, translated from the original German, in which he forthrightly relates psychology to religious concepts. These cast a strong, new light on the generally received understanding of Frankl’s contribution to psychology – “logotherapy” – and its relationship to the soul and universal ethics.

Psicoterapia e existencialismo é uma seleção de textos de Viktor Frankl, publicados durante as décadas de cinquenta e sessenta. O intuito do próprio Frankl foi selecionar seus escritos fundamentais para a compreensão dos princípios da logoterapia e suas aplicações práticas. Apresenta algumas das ideias bem conhecidas de Frankl a respeito da liberdade e responsabilidade do homem, e descreve pesquisas que apoiam a hipótese levantada por Frankl de que talvez a mais importante fonte de neurose moderna é a falta de sentido na vida. O livro ainda descreve os resultados da logoterapia através de uma descrição valiosa dos resultados clínicos da aplicação das técnicas logoterapêuticas. De acordo com Frankl, "a vida pode se tornar significativa pela atitude que tomamos diante de um destino que não podemos mais mudar". Portanto, a obra de Frankl resgata uma visão antropológica, salientando a liberdade e a transcendência como pontos fundamentais para se compreender o ser humano.

Una lliçó existencial del tot vigent avui Nova edició d''una obra mestra d''observació psicològica i un testimoni de grandesa humana. El relat de l''experiència dels camps de concentració per part de Viktor Frankl, psiquiatre i presoner, és una lliçó existencial sobre la capacitat humana de transcendir les dificultats i descobrir una veritat profunda que ens orienta i dona sentit a les nostres vides. Ell, que ho havia perdut tot, va poder reconèixer que, malgrat tot, la vida és digna de ser viscuda i que la llibertat interior i la dignitat humana són indestructibles. Amb una lucidesa extraordinària, Frankl reflexiona sobre per quin motiu, malgrat el pitjor dels inferns, val la pena viure. «Un dels pocs grans llibres de la humanitat». K. Jaspers

Find hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his international bestseller Man’s Search for Meaning. Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentration camps, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna. The psychiatrist, who would soon become world famous, explained his central thoughts on meaning, resilience, and the importance of embracing life even in the face of great adversity. Published here for the very first time in English, Frankl’s words resonate as strongly today—as the world faces a coronavirus pandemic, social isolation, and great economic uncertainty—as they did in 1946. He offers an insightful exploration of the maxim “Live as if you were living for the second time,” and he unfolds his basic conviction that every crisis contains opportunity. Despite the unspeakable horrors of the camps, Frankl learned from the strength of his fellow inmates that it is always possible to “say yes to life”—a profound and timeless lesson for us all.

Viktor Frankl, bestselling author of Man''s Search for Meaning, explains the psychological tools that enabled him to survive the Holocaust Viktor Frankl is known to millions as the author of Man''s Search for Meaning, his harrowing Holocaust memoir. In this book, he goes more deeply into the ways of thinking that enabled him to survive imprisonment in a concentration camp and to find meaning in life in spite of all the odds. He expands upon his groundbreaking ideas and searches for answers about life, death, faith and suffering. Believing that there is much more to our existence than meets the eye, he says: ''No one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.'' In Man''s Search for Ultimate Meaning, Frankl explores our sometimes unconscious desire for inspiration or revelation. He explains how we can create meaning for ourselves and, ultimately, he reveals how life has more to offer us than we could ever imagine.

"Wer ein Wozu zum Leben hat, erträgt fast jedes Wie." (Nietzsche). Diese elementare Erkenntnis hat Viktor E. Frankl, ein Überlebender von Auschwitz, zur Grundlage eines neune therapeutischen Prinzipt gemacht: Heilung durch Sinnfindung. Nicht der Blick in die schlimme, traumatisierende Vergangenheit und deren Aufarbeitung ist wichtig und hilfreich; es ist die Frage nach dem Wozu, die weiter hilft und heilt: Wer sich öffnet für den Sinn seiner Lebenssituation mit ihren kleinen und großen Herausforderungen und Problemen, wird gesund und frei. Der Begründer der Logotherapie entwickelt dieses Prinzip an den großen Lebensthemen wie Liebe, Stress und Überlastung, Älterwerden und Reifen an Leib und Seele. Ein Basiswerk der Logotherapie.

Viktor E. Frankl a pszichoanalízis (elsősorban annak freudi, illetve adleri irányai) materializmusát, ösztönenergia-koncepcióit, illetve az embert valamiképpen gépnek tekintő tendenciáit bírálva jutott el saját teóriájához, az egzisztenciaanalízishez. Ennek lényege, hogy a szellemi létezés autonómiáját vallja, az emberi pszichét szellemi jellegűnek tekinti. A szerző most magyarul is megjelent könyve az egzisztenciaanalízis és az istenhit kapcsolataira mutat rá, azt elemzi, hogy az ateisták is valamiképp Istennel folytatnak párbeszédet, amikor - hitük szerint - csak belső monológokat folytatnak. A kis könyv egyszerre tekinthető pszichológiai, szellemfilozófiai és vallási traktátusnak. Művelt, vallási kérdések iránt is érdeklődő olvasóknak (hívőknek és ateistáknak egyaránt) ajánlható.

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På baggrund af tre års erfaring som koncentrationslejrfange udvikler forfatteren sin psykiatriske retning Logoterapien. Logoterapien er vel nok vor tids mest betydningsfulde psykologiske retning og et opløftende svar på de teorier, der ynder at opfatte menneskets sind som en ren maskine. Viktor E. Frankl, cand.med., PhD, 1905-1997, var professor i Neurologi og Psykiatri på University of Vienna. I 25 år var han chef for Vienna Neurological Policlinic. Hans ”Logoterapi/Eksistentielle analyse” blev med tiden kendt som den ”Tredje wienske skole for psykoterapi”. Han havde professorater på Harvard, Stanford, Dallas og Pittsburgh, og var professor i logoterapi på det amerikanske internationale universitet i San Diego, Californien. Frankls 39 bøger er udgivet på 48 sprog. Hans bog ”Man’s Search for Meaning” (Menneskets søgen efter mening) har solgt millioner af eksemplarer og er på listen over ”de ti mest betydningsfulde bøger i Amerika”.

A young readers’ edition of the best-selling classic about the Holocaust and finding meaning in suffering, with a photo insert, a glossary of terms, a chronology of Frankl’s life, and supplementary letters and speeches The Library of Congress called it “one of the ten most influential books in America”; the New York Times pronounced it “an enduring work of survival literature”; and O, The Oprah Magazine praised it as “one of the most significant books of the twentieth century.” Man’s Search for Meaning has long riveted readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. This new young readers’ edition brings a beloved classic to a new generation of readers, offering a universal tribute to coping with suffering and finding one’s purpose. An abridged text of the original book (emphasizing Frankl’s personal story, while omitting some material on his psychological theory of logotherapy) is presented here, along with supplemental materials that vividly bring Frankl’s story to life, and a foreword by prominent young adult author John Boyne. Man’s Search for Meaning: A Young Readers’ Edition will help readers ages twelve to eighteen grasp Frankl’s enduring lessons on perseverance and strength with clarity and depth.