first edition Softcover
1946 · Wien (Vienna)
by Frankl, Viktor E.; Anton Tesarek (ed.)
Wien (Vienna): Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946. First edition. Softcover. g- to g+. Octavo. 130pp.Published in the series "Östereichische Dokumente zur Zeitgeschichte. Volume 1 (Austrian Documents on Contemporary History)." Cover by Leo Friedrich.
The first edition of Viktor Frankl's groundbreaking psychological exploration, in German. Victor E. Frankl, his wife and his parents were deported to Theresienstadt on September 25, 1942. His father passed there in 1943, his mother was murdered in Auschwitz, so was his brother Walter. Frankl's wife Tilly died in the KZ Bergen-Belsen. In 1944 Frankl was transported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz, a few days later to the satellite camp Kaufering III, and on March 5th, 1945, into Kaufering camp VI, a satellite camp of Dachau. Here he was liberated by the American Army on April 27, 1945.
Text in German.
Wrappers with a few chips to extremities, as well as some creasing and closed tear. Interior with pages age toned, and somewhat brittle. Initial pages with chipping, and/or creasing to the top corners of pages. Book block tight overall. Wrappers in good-, interior in good+ condition overall. Wrappers protected in modern mylar. Frankl disagreed with what he deemed the reductionist tendencies if early psychotherapeutic approaches, claiming that they dehumanized patients. He developed the so-called logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes the search for life's meaning as the central human motivational force. Next to Freud and Adler, it was considered the third school of Viennese Psychotherapy at the time. His book "Man's Search for Meaning" was published in English in 1959 and became an international bestseller. A survey conducted by the Library of Congress in 1991 deemed Frankl's title as one of the ten most influential books in the US. Frankl took the success of this book as a symptom of "mass neurosis of modern times." The original German version, Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager, was written within a period of nine days.
"By observing the behavior of the Auschwitz inmates he came to the conclusion that "The prisoner who had lost faith in the future–his future–was doomed. With his loss of belief in the future, he also lost his spiritual hold; he let himself decline and became subject to mental and physical decay." Frankl's books include Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager (1946; From Death Camp to Existentialism, 1959; republished as Man's Search for Meaning, 1964), and Aerztliche Seelsorge (1946; The Doctor and the Soul. 1955, 1965)" Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 7, p. 102. (Inventory #: 54726)
The first edition of Viktor Frankl's groundbreaking psychological exploration, in German. Victor E. Frankl, his wife and his parents were deported to Theresienstadt on September 25, 1942. His father passed there in 1943, his mother was murdered in Auschwitz, so was his brother Walter. Frankl's wife Tilly died in the KZ Bergen-Belsen. In 1944 Frankl was transported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz, a few days later to the satellite camp Kaufering III, and on March 5th, 1945, into Kaufering camp VI, a satellite camp of Dachau. Here he was liberated by the American Army on April 27, 1945.
Text in German.
Wrappers with a few chips to extremities, as well as some creasing and closed tear. Interior with pages age toned, and somewhat brittle. Initial pages with chipping, and/or creasing to the top corners of pages. Book block tight overall. Wrappers in good-, interior in good+ condition overall. Wrappers protected in modern mylar. Frankl disagreed with what he deemed the reductionist tendencies if early psychotherapeutic approaches, claiming that they dehumanized patients. He developed the so-called logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes the search for life's meaning as the central human motivational force. Next to Freud and Adler, it was considered the third school of Viennese Psychotherapy at the time. His book "Man's Search for Meaning" was published in English in 1959 and became an international bestseller. A survey conducted by the Library of Congress in 1991 deemed Frankl's title as one of the ten most influential books in the US. Frankl took the success of this book as a symptom of "mass neurosis of modern times." The original German version, Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager, was written within a period of nine days.
"By observing the behavior of the Auschwitz inmates he came to the conclusion that "The prisoner who had lost faith in the future–his future–was doomed. With his loss of belief in the future, he also lost his spiritual hold; he let himself decline and became subject to mental and physical decay." Frankl's books include Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager (1946; From Death Camp to Existentialism, 1959; republished as Man's Search for Meaning, 1964), and Aerztliche Seelsorge (1946; The Doctor and the Soul. 1955, 1965)" Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 7, p. 102. (Inventory #: 54726)
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