Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl 1946

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
Holocaust memoir psychology meaning

Our Take

Frankl survived Auschwitz and then wrote a book arguing that meaning can be found even in the worst suffering. The first half is memoir — precise, horrifying, unsentimental. The second half is theory. Together they form a document that refuses to let the camps have the last word.

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