-Titulo Original : The Doctor And The Soul From Psychotherapy To Logotherapy
-Fabricante :
Vintage
-Descripcion Original:
Newly reissued in trade paperback, from the author of the bestselling Mans Search for Meaning--the classic book in which he first laid out his revolutionary theory of logotherapy. Dr. Viktor E. Frankl is celebrated as the founder of logotherapy, a revolutionary mode of psychotherapy based on the essential human need to search for meaning in life. Even while suffering the degradation and misery of Nazi concentration camps--an experience he described in his bestselling memoir, Mans Search for Meaning--Frankl retained his belief that the most important freedom is the ability to determine ones spiritual well-being. After his liberation, he published The Doctor and the Soul, the first book in which he explained his method and his conviction that the fundamental human motivation is neither sex (as in Freud) nor the need to be appreciated by society (as in Adler), but the desire to live a purposeful life. Frankls work represented a major contribution to the field of psychotherapy, and The Doctor and the Soul is essential to understanding it. Review “Perhaps the most significant thinking since Freud and Adler.” - American Journal of Psychiatry “His most important book. . . . It gives an existential and spiritual dimension to the work of psychotherapy.” - Positive Health “[Frankl] subject[s] the great phenomenon of life to a new evaluation. . . . Well written and backed by powerful personal conviction.” - American Journal of Psychotherapy About the Author VIKTOR E. FRANKL (1905-1997) was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna. During World War II, he spent three years in Auschwitz, Dachau, and other concentration camps. He was the founder of the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy--the school of logotherapy--and President of the Austrian Medical Society of Psychotherapy. His forty books, which include Man’s Search for Meaning, Psychotherapy and Existentialism, and The Will to Meaning, have been translated into fifty languages. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Preface to the Third Edition (1985) This third-revised and enlarged-edition of The Doctor and the Soul is the fifty-seventh that has been published in nine languages (in addition to the German original and the English edition, there are Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Finnish, Dutch, Danish ,and Portuguese versions). Let me, therefore, say a few words regarding the story behind the book-a story that has often been obscured by the misconceptions of the mass media whose representatives never weary of proclaiming that Viktor Frankl came out of Auschwitz with a brand-new psychotherapeutic system he had developed in the concentration camp. The very opposite is true: I entered the camp with a full-length book manuscript (hidden under the lining of my overcoat) which was indeed an outline of the basic concepts of logotherapy. I had worked on it up to the last moment and hoped to save it during the period of imprisonment. I could not anticipate that it would be taken away from me immediately and, of course, destroyed. Under the circumstances, I felt like a father who was not spared watching his children murdered before his eyes. The book was, in fact, my spiritual child who I’d hoped would survive even if I did not do so myself. To be sure, the concentration camps I went through did in fact serve as a testing ground that confirmed one of the main tenets of logotherapy, the theory that the basic meaning orientation of an individual-or, as I am used to calling it, the “will to meaning”-has actual survival value. Under comparable circumstances, those inmates who were oriented toward the future, whether it was a task to complete in the future, or a beloved person to be reunited with, were most likely to survive the horrors of the camps (I say “camps” because the same lessons can be learned from the psychiatric literature on American soldiers kept in Japanese, North-
-Fabricante :
Vintage
-Descripcion Original:
Newly reissued in trade paperback, from the author of the bestselling Mans Search for Meaning--the classic book in which he first laid out his revolutionary theory of logotherapy. Dr. Viktor E. Frankl is celebrated as the founder of logotherapy, a revolutionary mode of psychotherapy based on the essential human need to search for meaning in life. Even while suffering the degradation and misery of Nazi concentration camps--an experience he described in his bestselling memoir, Mans Search for Meaning--Frankl retained his belief that the most important freedom is the ability to determine ones spiritual well-being. After his liberation, he published The Doctor and the Soul, the first book in which he explained his method and his conviction that the fundamental human motivation is neither sex (as in Freud) nor the need to be appreciated by society (as in Adler), but the desire to live a purposeful life. Frankls work represented a major contribution to the field of psychotherapy, and The Doctor and the Soul is essential to understanding it. Review “Perhaps the most significant thinking since Freud and Adler.” - American Journal of Psychiatry “His most important book. . . . It gives an existential and spiritual dimension to the work of psychotherapy.” - Positive Health “[Frankl] subject[s] the great phenomenon of life to a new evaluation. . . . Well written and backed by powerful personal conviction.” - American Journal of Psychotherapy About the Author VIKTOR E. FRANKL (1905-1997) was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna. During World War II, he spent three years in Auschwitz, Dachau, and other concentration camps. He was the founder of the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy--the school of logotherapy--and President of the Austrian Medical Society of Psychotherapy. His forty books, which include Man’s Search for Meaning, Psychotherapy and Existentialism, and The Will to Meaning, have been translated into fifty languages. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Preface to the Third Edition (1985) This third-revised and enlarged-edition of The Doctor and the Soul is the fifty-seventh that has been published in nine languages (in addition to the German original and the English edition, there are Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Finnish, Dutch, Danish ,and Portuguese versions). Let me, therefore, say a few words regarding the story behind the book-a story that has often been obscured by the misconceptions of the mass media whose representatives never weary of proclaiming that Viktor Frankl came out of Auschwitz with a brand-new psychotherapeutic system he had developed in the concentration camp. The very opposite is true: I entered the camp with a full-length book manuscript (hidden under the lining of my overcoat) which was indeed an outline of the basic concepts of logotherapy. I had worked on it up to the last moment and hoped to save it during the period of imprisonment. I could not anticipate that it would be taken away from me immediately and, of course, destroyed. Under the circumstances, I felt like a father who was not spared watching his children murdered before his eyes. The book was, in fact, my spiritual child who I’d hoped would survive even if I did not do so myself. To be sure, the concentration camps I went through did in fact serve as a testing ground that confirmed one of the main tenets of logotherapy, the theory that the basic meaning orientation of an individual-or, as I am used to calling it, the “will to meaning”-has actual survival value. Under comparable circumstances, those inmates who were oriented toward the future, whether it was a task to complete in the future, or a beloved person to be reunited with, were most likely to survive the horrors of the camps (I say “camps” because the same lessons can be learned from the psychiatric literature on American soldiers kept in Japanese, North-
