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FOREWORD

VIKTOR FRANKL’S Man’s Search for Meaning is one of the great books of
our time. Typically, if a book has one passage, one idea with the
power to change a person’s life,

PREFACE TO

THIS BOOK
HAS NOW LIVED TO SEE nearly one hundred printings in
English—in addition to having been published in twenty-one other
languages. And the English editions alone have sold more than three
million copies.
These are the dry facts, and they may well be the reason why
reporters of American newspapers and particularly of American TV
stations more often than not start their interviews,

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EXPERIENCES IN A

CONCENTRATION CAMP
THIS BOOK DOES NOT CLAIM TO BE an account of facts and events but of
personal experiences, experiences which millions of prisoners.

We stumbled on in the darkness, over big stones and through
large puddles, along the one road leading from the camp. The
accompanying guards kept shouting at us and driving us with it.

LOGOTHERAPY

IN A NUTSHELL
READERS OF MY SHORT AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STORY usually ask for a fuller
and more direct explanation of my therapeutic doctrine.
Accordingly I added a brief section on logotherapy to the original
edition of From Death-Camp to Existentialism. But that was not
enough, and I have been besieged by requests for a more extended
treatment. Therefore in the present edition I have completely
rewritten and considerably expanded my account.

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The Will to Meaning

Man’s search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and
not a “secondary rationalization” of instinctual drives. This meaning
is unique and good.

The Meaning of Life

I doubt whether a doctor can answer this question in general terms.
For the meaning of life is to leave it for others.
night a violin sang a desperately sad tango, an unusual

tune not spoiled by frequent playing. The violin wept and
a part of me wept with it, for on that same day someone
had a twenty-fourth birthday. That someone lay in another
part of the Auschwitz camp, possibly only a few hundred
or a thousand yards away, and yet completely out of
reach. That someone was my wife.
To discover that there was any semblance of art in a
concentration camp must be surprise enough for an out-
sider, but he may be even more astonished to hear that one
could find a sense of humor there as well; of course, only
the faint trace of one, and then only for a few seconds or
minutes. Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the
fight for self-preservation. It is well known that humor,
more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford
d an ability.
About the Author

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Viktor E. Frankl is Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry
at the University of Vienna Medical School. He is the founder
of what has come to be called the Third Viennese School of
Psychotherapy (after Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's in-
dividual psychology)—the school of logotherapy. His work
has been called "perhaps the most significant thinking since
Freud and Adler" by the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Born in 1905, Dr. Frankl received the degrees.
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