Wednesday, May 15, 2013

BOOK REVIEW:

Man's Search for Meaning is a book based on a true story about Viktor Emil Frankl, a Holocaust survivor who was also an important
Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist.

In his book, describes from the perspective of a psychiatrist, his experience as a concentration camp prisoner.
In such horrible conditions, he was discovering the importance of finding meaning in all forms of existence, even the most extreme ones.
After three years later, he was rescued by the American army.
Something that I found very interesting is that, when he returned to his job, Dr. Frankl, asked his patients: "Why don´t you just commit suicide?" and from their answers, he was able to
find the guide-line for his psychotherapy.

I chose this book because I wanted to read something related to psychology and a teacher recommended me.
For me, this book was easy to read because I found it very catchy but it took me a long time to figure out a lot of words that I´ve never seen but it´s normal.
I totally recommended this book because
 I believe that one way to be able to deal with our life is through the awareness about how trifling our problems are so this book is a good example.
No doubt that for Mr. Frankl was the key because he lived 92 years! ;)

Zaida Brasal

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