Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos ("meaning")-holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.

At the time of Frankl's death in 1997, Man's Search for Meaning had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. A 1991 reader survey for the Library of Congress that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America.

Beacon Press, the original English-language publisher of Man's Search for Meaning, is issuing this new paperback edition with a new Foreword, biographical Afterword, jacket, price, and classroom materials to reach new generations of readers.

维克多•E.弗兰克尔（Frank.V.E.,1905-1997），医学博士，维也纳医科大学神经与精神病学教授，担任维也纳神经综合医学院的首席专家长达25年，他创立了“意义疗法”及“存在主义分析”，被称之为继弗伊德的心理分析、阿德勒的个体心理学之后的维也纳第三心理治辽学派。他拥有哈佛大学、斯坦福大学，达拉斯大学和匹兹堡大学教授职位，并在加利福尼亚圣迭哥国际大学教授意义辽法。弗兰克尔共出版了39部作品，并被翻译成34种语言。他的作品《活出生命的意义》”美国最有影响力的十大图书“之一。