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.

維剋多•E.弗蘭剋爾（Frank.V.E.,1905-1997），醫學博士，維也納醫科大學神經與精神病學教授，擔任維也納神經綜閤醫學院的首席專傢長達25年，他創立瞭“意義療法”及“存在主義分析”，被稱之為繼弗伊德的心理分析、阿德勒的個體心理學之後的維也納第三心理治遼學派。他擁有哈佛大學、斯坦福大學，達拉斯大學和匹茲堡大學教授職位，並在加利福尼亞聖迭哥國際大學教授意義遼法。弗蘭剋爾共齣版瞭39部作品，並被翻譯成34種語言。他的作品《活齣生命的意義》”美國最有影響力的十大圖書“之一。