内容简介
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest -- and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances. The sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone. Only those who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influence -- while those who made a victory of those experiences turned them into an inner triumph. Frankl came to believe man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose.
This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.
作者简介
Viktor Frankl was born in Vienna in 1905 and was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School. His wife, father, mother and brother all died in Nazi concentration camps; only he and his sister survived, but he never lost the qualities of compassion, loyalty, undaunted spirit and thirst for life (earning his pilot's licence aged 67). He died in Vienna in 1997.
维克多·弗兰克(Viktor Emil Frankl,1905年3月26日-1997年9月2日)是一位奥地利神经学家、精神病学家,犹太人大屠杀幸存者。1905年3月26日,维克多·弗兰克出生于奥匈帝国京城维也纳的一个犹太人家庭,父亲是政府公务员。维克多·弗兰克在集中营中度过了3年时间,到1945年4月27日被美国军队解救。他的亲属中只有妹妹幸存了下来,她通过移民澳大利亚而逃脱了死亡。1997年9月2日,92岁的维克多·弗兰克在维也纳去世。
精彩书评
"Remarkable...It changed my life and became a part of all that I live and all that I teach."
-- Susan Jeffers, author of Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway and Embracing Uncertainty
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